Warm-summer humid continental
Mountain Top, Pennsylvania
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania · Population 12k · 1,575 ft elevation
Living in Mountain Top
Mountain Top has a warm-summer humid continental climate: pleasantly warm summers (July highs around 78°F) and cold winters (January lows around 15°F).
Precipitation is wet at about 49″ a year, and it gets a fair bit of snow (36″ a season).
Skies are partly sunny (53% of possible sunshine). Muggy weather is occasional (15 days a year).
Air quality is good: a median AQI of 37 and virtually no unhealthy-air days.
There is plenty to explore outdoors around Mountain Top: about 18% 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.
Mountain Top at a glance
- Population
- 12k
- Elevation
- 1,575 ft
- Average daily high
- 56°F5th percentile
- Average daily low
- 37°F9th percentile
- Annual precipitation
- 49″71th percentile
- Annual snowfall
- 36″76th percentile
- Sunshine hours per year
- 2,384 hrs8th percentile
- Median AQI
- 3721th percentile
- Median home value
- $275k53th percentile
- Median rent
- $843/mo18th percentile
- Median household income
- $105k77th percentile
- Property tax rate
- 1.34%67th percentile
- Top state income-tax rate
- 3.1%
- Sales tax (state + local)
- 6.3%
- Unemployment rate
- 2.9%
- Homes with broadband
- 94%69th percentile
- Walkability index
- 5.36th percentile
- Average commute
- 26 min
- Math proficiency (8th grade)
- 57%66th percentile
- Reading proficiency (8th grade)
- 72%
- Overall natural-hazard risk
- 9254th percentile
- Outdoor access
- 8988th percentile
- Public land within 10 miles
- 21%
- Public land within 30 miles
- 18%
- Mountain relief within 30 miles
- 1,444 ft
Climate by month
| Month | High | Low | Precipitation | Snow | Sunshine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 31°F | 15°F | 3.1″ | 10.7″ | 126 hrs |
| Feb | 35°F | 17°F | 2.6″ | 10.2″ | 140 hrs |
| Mar | 43°F | 24°F | 3.6″ | 6.0″ | 179 hrs |
| Apr | 56°F | 34°F | 4.1″ | 0.8″ | 206 hrs |
| May | 67°F | 45°F | 4.2″ | — | 240 hrs |
| Jun | 74°F | 54°F | 4.8″ | — | 269 hrs |
| Jul | 78°F | 58°F | 4.5″ | — | 304 hrs |
| Aug | 77°F | 56°F | 4.5″ | — | 273 hrs |
| Sep | 71°F | 49°F | 5.2″ | — | 228 hrs |
| Oct | 59°F | 38°F | 4.7″ | 0.2″ | 170 hrs |
| Nov | 47°F | 29°F | 3.6″ | 1.1″ | 143 hrs |
| Dec | 36°F | 22°F | 3.8″ | 6.6″ | 106 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