Warm-summer humid continental
Somerset, Pennsylvania
Somerset County, Pennsylvania · Population 6k · 2,169 ft elevation
Living in Somerset
Somerset has a warm-summer humid continental climate: pleasantly warm summers (July highs around 79°F) and cold winters (January lows around 19°F).
Precipitation is very wet at about 56″ a year, and it is a snowy place (96″ a season).
Skies are partly sunny (51% of possible sunshine). Summers get sticky, with about 26 muggy days a year.
Air quality is good: a median AQI of 36 and virtually no unhealthy-air days.
There is plenty to explore outdoors around Somerset: about 12% of the land within 30 miles is public (parks, national forest and the like), and the terrain rises and falls about 1,600 ft around town.
Somerset at a glance
- Population
- 6k
- Elevation
- 2,169 ft
- Average daily high
- 58°F10th percentile
- Average daily low
- 41°F25th percentile
- Annual precipitation
- 56″90th percentile
- Annual snowfall
- 96″98th percentile
- Sunshine hours per year
- 2,330 hrs5th percentile
- Median AQI
- 3616th percentile
- Median home value
- $144k17th percentile
- Median rent
- $673/mo3th percentile
- Median household income
- $42k6th percentile
- Property tax rate
- 1.77%83th percentile
- Top state income-tax rate
- 3.1%
- Sales tax (state + local)
- 6.3%
- Unemployment rate
- 3.8%
- Homes with broadband
- 87%27th percentile
- Walkability index
- 8.854th percentile
- Average commute
- 18 min
- Math proficiency (8th grade)
- 42%42th percentile
- Reading proficiency (8th grade)
- 72%
- Violent crime rate
- 674 per 100k94th percentile
- Property crime rate
- 842 per 100k
- Overall natural-hazard risk
- 6419th percentile
- Outdoor access
- 8282th percentile
- Public land within 10 miles
- 5%
- Public land within 30 miles
- 12%
- Mountain relief within 30 miles
- 1,575 ft
Climate by month
| Month | High | Low | Precipitation | Snow | Sunshine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 34°F | 19°F | 4.5″ | 27.6″ | 100 hrs |
| Feb | 37°F | 20°F | 4.9″ | 23.6″ | 117 hrs |
| Mar | 46°F | 27°F | 4.5″ | 15.4″ | 162 hrs |
| Apr | 59°F | 36°F | 5.5″ | 3.1″ | 204 hrs |
| May | 69°F | 50°F | 5.4″ | — | 245 hrs |
| Jun | 75°F | 58°F | 4.7″ | — | 274 hrs |
| Jul | 79°F | 64°F | 4.2″ | — | 300 hrs |
| Aug | 77°F | 61°F | 4.7″ | — | 281 hrs |
| Sep | 72°F | 54°F | 4.3″ | — | 237 hrs |
| Oct | 61°F | 42°F | 4.1″ | 0.9″ | 175 hrs |
| Nov | 49°F | 33°F | 4.2″ | 5.9″ | 146 hrs |
| Dec | 39°F | 25°F | 5.0″ | 19.7″ | 88 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