Hiking in New York
- Months in the band
- 6
- Longest run
- April, May and June
- Warmest month
- July, 23.7
- Band used
- 5 to 22
Of the twelve months measured over twenty years in New York, 6 fall inside the 5 to 22 degree band used here for Hiking. The longest run of them is April, May and June.
The band is wide because walking generates little heat and a long day outdoors is mostly about not being caught in the worst of it. Past 26 degrees the shade and the water carried stop being optional.
The warmest month is July, at a mean of 23.7 degrees. The coldest is January, at 1.1.
Rain is heaviest in December, about 133 mm across the month, and lightest in February at 95 mm.
The figures are monthly means for New York over 2001-2020, read from one satellite reanalysis cell. The 5 to 22 degree band is a stated convention rather than a measurement, and it is the only judgement on this page.
This page says when, not where. It names no route, trail, pool, gym or club, because the dataset that holds those is not built here. There is no water temperature, no gradient and no surface in this source either, so a comfortable month is about the air and nothing else.
Hiking in New York
| Month | Mean temperature | Rain | In the band |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.1 | 99 mm | no |
| February | 1.4 | 95 mm | no |
| March | 4.2 | 114 mm | no |
| April | 9.1 | 107 mm | yes |
| May | 14.3 | 101 mm | yes |
| June | 19.9 | 115 mm | yes |
| July | 23.7 | 114 mm | no |
| August | 23.7 | 114 mm | no |
| September | 20.6 | 97 mm | yes |
| October | 14.9 | 124 mm | yes |
| November | 9.3 | 101 mm | yes |
| December | 4.5 | 133 mm | no |
Questions
When is the best time for hiking in New York?
The longest comfortable run is April, May and June, on the 5 to 22 degree band this page states. The table gives every month, so a different band can be read off it.
Does this list routes?
No. It says which months are comfortable and nothing about where to go. Routes, trails and pools need a dataset this programme has not been able to build, and inventing a route list would be worse than leaving it out.
Where do the temperatures come from?
From monthly climate normals published by NASA POWER, averaged over twenty years and read at one grid cell for the city. They are means for the whole day and month, not daytime highs.
Related pages
Sources
- NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))