Warm-summer humid continental
Carthage, New York
Jefferson County, New York · Population 3.5k · 768 ft elevation
Living in Carthage
Carthage has a warm-summer humid continental climate: pleasantly warm summers (July highs around 79°F) and bitterly cold winters (January lows around 8°F).
Precipitation is wet at about 42″ a year, and it is buried in snow every winter (127″ a season).
Skies are partly sunny (52% of possible sunshine). Muggy weather is occasional (14 days a year).
Air quality is good: a median AQI of 34 and virtually no unhealthy-air days.
There is plenty to explore outdoors around Carthage: about 17% of the land within 30 miles is public (parks, national forest and the like), and the terrain rises and falls about 1,500 ft around town.
Carthage at a glance
- Population
- 3.5k
- Elevation
- 768 ft
- Average daily high
- 54°F2th percentile
- Average daily low
- 34°F4th percentile
- Annual precipitation
- 42″44th percentile
- Annual snowfall
- 127″99th percentile
- Sunshine hours per year
- 2,389 hrs8th percentile
- Median AQI
- 349th percentile
- Median home value
- $126k13th percentile
- Median rent
- $959/mo30th percentile
- Median household income
- $58k28th percentile
- Property tax rate
- 2.23%93th percentile
- Top state income-tax rate
- 10.9%
- Sales tax (state + local)
- 8.5%
- Unemployment rate
- 5.3%
- Homes with broadband
- 91%49th percentile
- Walkability index
- 6.214th percentile
- Average commute
- 28 min
- Math proficiency (8th grade)
- 42%42th percentile
- Reading proficiency (8th grade)
- 47%
- Violent crime rate
- 31 per 100k8th percentile
- Property crime rate
- 617 per 100k
- Overall natural-hazard risk
- 6419th percentile
- Outdoor access
- 8382th percentile
- Public land within 10 miles
- 4%
- Public land within 30 miles
- 17%
- Mountain relief within 30 miles
- 1,542 ft
Climate by month
| Month | High | Low | Precipitation | Snow | Sunshine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 27°F | 8°F | 3.5″ | 35.6″ | 113 hrs |
| Feb | 29°F | 10°F | 2.6″ | 29.6″ | 132 hrs |
| Mar | 38°F | 19°F | 2.6″ | 15.8″ | 194 hrs |
| Apr | 52°F | 32°F | 3.1″ | 4.1″ | 207 hrs |
| May | 66°F | 44°F | 3.4″ | 0.2″ | 258 hrs |
| Jun | 74°F | 53°F | 3.7″ | — | 276 hrs |
| Jul | 79°F | 58°F | 3.5″ | — | 314 hrs |
| Aug | 78°F | 56°F | 3.8″ | — | 289 hrs |
| Sep | 70°F | 48°F | 3.5″ | — | 241 hrs |
| Oct | 57°F | 38°F | 4.6″ | 0.4″ | 157 hrs |
| Nov | 44°F | 28°F | 3.8″ | 9.4″ | 122 hrs |
| Dec | 33°F | 17°F | 3.8″ | 31.9″ | 85 hrs |
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Sources: NOAA climate normals, NASA POWER, EPA air quality, U.S. Census Bureau, FEMA, FBI, EPA walkability and EDFacts. Methodology