Climate of US locations

Long-term temperature, rainfall, snow, and severe-storm history for US cities — drawn from NOAA records.

The continental United States spans every major climate zone, from the tropical edge of South Florida to the cold continental interior of the northern Plains. The pages below summarize long-term temperature, precipitation, snowfall, and severe-storm patterns for cities across the country, drawn from decades of daily NOAA observations.

Featured locations

Boston, MA

Humid continental

111 insnowiest winter

Boston has a humid-continental climate softened by the Atlantic, which moderates both summer highs and winter lows compared to inland New England.

Chicago, IL

Humid continental

−22°Fall-time low

Chicago is a classic humid-continental city pushed around by the Great Lakes.

Denver, CO

Semi-arid steppe

−15°Fall-time low

Denver sits a mile high on the western edge of the Great Plains, which gives it a climate of extremes: hot summer afternoons, cold winter nights, and dramatic day-to-day swings that catch visitors off guard.

Houston, TX

Humid subtropical

12.07 inbiggest 24-h rain

Houston's climate is humid subtropical with the Gulf of Mexico parked next door, which means heat, sticky air, and lots of rain.

Los Angeles, CA

Mediterranean

Augustdriest month

Los Angeles has the driest big-city climate in the country, a Mediterranean pattern that gives you long warm summers, mild winters, and a brief winter wet season.

Miami, FL

Tropical monsoon

11 inbiggest 24-h rain

Miami's climate is tropical — the only US city outside Hawaii that genuinely qualifies.

New York, NY

Humid continental

76 insnowiest winter

New York's climate is humid continental on the Northeast Atlantic edge, so it gets the full menu: thundery, sticky July afternoons, crisp October weekends, January cold snaps that send the wind chill negative, and the occasional March nor'easter that buries Brooklyn for a day.

Philadelphia, PA

Humid subtropical

Augustwettest month

Philadelphia sits at the seam between the humid-subtropical South and the humid-continental Northeast, which makes its weather feel like neither and both.

Phoenix, AZ

Hot desert

171days/yr ≥ 90°F

Phoenix is hot desert, and the heat is the whole story.

Seattle, WA

Marine west coast

49 dayslongest dry streak

Seattle's reputation for endless rain is partly true and partly slander.

All covered locations

Every city below has a per-station climatology page. Tags use the Köppen-Geiger classification — see the methodology footer.

Northeast

Southeast

Midwest

Great Plains

Mountain West

Pacific Coast

About the data

Climate facts come from NOAA's Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-Daily) — daily temperature, precipitation, and snowfall observations from thousands of US weather stations. Normals are computed over the 1991–2020 reference window where available; all-time records use each station's full period of record (often 80+ years). For every location, GrayCloud picks the nearest first-order station with sufficient coverage for the metric being shown; when a record was set at a different nearby station, the card surfaces a "via" note so the provenance is honest. Climate-type tags use the Köppen-Geiger classification computed from each station's 12-month temperature and precipitation normals.

How it's computed