Warm-summer humid continental
Gold Key Lake, Pennsylvania
Pike County, Pennsylvania · Population 2.7k · 1,391 ft elevation
Living in Gold Key Lake
Gold Key Lake has a warm-summer humid continental climate: pleasantly warm summers (July highs around 79°F) and cold winters (January lows around 13°F).
Precipitation is wet at about 47″ a year, and it gets a fair bit of snow (41″ a season).
Skies are partly sunny (56% of possible sunshine). Muggy weather is occasional (9 days a year).
Air quality is good: a median AQI of 36, with about 2 unhealthy-air days in the latest year.
There is plenty to explore outdoors around Gold Key Lake: about 15% of the land within 30 miles is public (parks, national forest and the like), and the terrain rises and falls about 1,400 ft around town.
Gold Key Lake at a glance
- Population
- 2.7k
- Elevation
- 1,391 ft
- Average daily high
- 56°F5th percentile
- Average daily low
- 34°F4th percentile
- Annual precipitation
- 47″63th percentile
- Annual snowfall
- 41″81th percentile
- Sunshine hours per year
- 2,535 hrs16th percentile
- Median AQI
- 3616th percentile
- Median home value
- $207k36th percentile
- Median household income
- $97k71th percentile
- Property tax rate
- 1.63%78th percentile
- Top state income-tax rate
- 3.1%
- Sales tax (state + local)
- 6.3%
- Unemployment rate
- 3.6%
- Homes with broadband
- 95%76th percentile
- Walkability index
- 4.52th percentile
- Average commute
- 50 min
- Math proficiency (8th grade)
- 35%32th percentile
- Reading proficiency (8th grade)
- 65%
- Overall natural-hazard risk
- 6620th percentile
- Outdoor access
- 8786th percentile
- Public land within 10 miles
- 23%
- Public land within 30 miles
- 15%
- Mountain relief within 30 miles
- 1,378 ft
Climate by month
| Month | High | Low | Precipitation | Snow | Sunshine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 31°F | 13°F | 3.1″ | 11.6″ | 146 hrs |
| Feb | 34°F | 14°F | 2.9″ | 9.7″ | 157 hrs |
| Mar | 43°F | 22°F | 3.9″ | 6.8″ | 196 hrs |
| Apr | 56°F | 31°F | 3.9″ | 1.9″ | 216 hrs |
| May | 67°F | 42°F | 3.3″ | — | 246 hrs |
| Jun | 75°F | 52°F | 5.4″ | — | 273 hrs |
| Jul | 79°F | 55°F | 3.7″ | — | 313 hrs |
| Aug | 77°F | 54°F | 4.4″ | — | 281 hrs |
| Sep | 71°F | 47°F | 4.7″ | — | 239 hrs |
| Oct | 59°F | 36°F | 4.7″ | — | 183 hrs |
| Nov | 47°F | 26°F | 3.3″ | 0.8″ | 159 hrs |
| Dec | 36°F | 20°F | 4.0″ | 10.0″ | 127 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