Year in NYC
5 months of comfortable outdoor weather.
Four real seasons. Brutal Jan-Feb, humid July-Aug, postcard May and October.
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Comfortable Tolerable Avoid outside
What 5/10 means here
Three good seasons and one you tolerate.
The Weather score measures how many days of the year are actually comfortable to be outside in normal clothes: temperature range, humidity, precipitation, and seasonal extremes. We weight summer extremes (heat, humidity) and winter extremes (cold, ice, darkness) equally — both reshape daily life.
How NYC compares
Weather across every city we cover.
How to use it
Planning a move around weather.
- Most movers underweight weather and regret it within 18 months. The day-to-day mood impact compounds.
- Pair with Outdoors. A 10 Outdoors with a 4 Weather means a great 4-month window, not a year-round lifestyle.
- If you have Seasonal Affective Disorder, treat anything under 6 here as a hard constraint, not a tradeoff.
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