The climate of Boston: when to go to Boston

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The city of Boston has a continental climate but with maritime influences due to its location along the Atlantic Ocean. The city is characterized by a highly variable climate that makes it famous in the U.S. for the time really unpredictable.

Summer in Boston is usually sunny, hot but also humid and rainy, the average maximum temperature in July have an average of 28 ° C. Winters, by contrast, are cold, windy, rainy and snowy, the coldest month is January with the average maximum temperature of 2.1 ° C and the average minimum temperatures of -5.6 ° C .

Boston has an average of 22 snow days per year in which fall a total of 114 cm of snow, the snow usually falls in the months between December and March.

Rainfall is fairly abundant, inthe city fall an average of 1,100 mm in a year, rain is equally distributed in every month of the year, the rainy days are 126 in a year, while the hours of sunshine are 2,638.

WHEN TO GO TO BOSTON

The best time to visit Boston is late spring or early autumn, when the weather is warm and pleasant. Autumn is particularly suitable because it is the period in which the forests of New England have the beautiful autumn colors of the leaves.

THE CLIMATE OF BOSTON: CLIMATE TABLES

BOSTON (6 meters)
Month	Average low (°C)	Average high (°C)	Precip. (mm)	Precip. days (snowy days)
January	-5,4	2,1	85,3	11,3 (6,7)
February	-4,1	3,7	82,6	9,8 (5,3)
March	-0,5	7,4	109,7	11,6 (4,2)
April	4,8	13,1	95,0	11,2 (0,7)
May	9,9	18,9	88,6	12,0
June	15,3	24,4	93,5	10,9
July	18,6	27,4	87,1	9,6
August	18,1	26,4	85,1	9,4
September	14,1	22,4	87,4	8,6
October	8,1	16,3	100,1	9,4 (0,1)
November	3,3	10,8	101,3	10,6 (0,8)
December	-2,1	5,1	96,0	11,6 (4,6)
YEAR	6,7	14,9	1111,8	126,0 (22,4)