About and press
Everyone's perfect weather is different
Goldilocks Map shows, for every place on Earth, how many days a year the weather matches your idea of comfortable: your temperature range, your humidity limit and how much sun you want.
Key numbers
- #1 of America's 150 largest cities: Oxnard, California, 144 just-right days a year
- #2 of America's 150 largest cities: Long Beach, California, 132 just-right days a year
- #3 of America's 150 largest cities: Huntington Beach, California, 124 just-right days a year
- #4 of America's 150 largest cities: San Diego, California, 118 just-right days a year
- #5 of America's 150 largest cities: Anaheim, California, 112 just-right days a year
- The median big US city gets 33 just-right days a year (70 to 80°F highs, dry, mostly sunny).
- Accuracy: within about 10 days a year of 10 years of NOAA station records.
For writers and editors
Every city page has a "Cite this" sentence and a stable link. City map images and the full rankings are free to use with credit to Goldilocks Map and a link. The America's Goldilocks Cities ranking covers 150 metros; the month guides cover travel timing.
Contact
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How it's made
See method and accuracy. Numbers are climate averages for a typical year, not forecasts.
Credits and licenses
- Climate: TerraClimate (Abatzoglou et al., 2018) and CHELSA (Karger et al.), both public domain (CC0).
- Places: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.
- Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), © OpenMapTiles, tiles by OpenFreeMap, drawn with MapLibre GL JS (BSD 3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors).
- Accuracy checks: NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day station records; ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), which contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information.
- Fonts: Fraunces and Hanken Grotesk (SIL Open Font License).