Warm-summer humid continental
Windber, Pennsylvania
Somerset County, Pennsylvania · Population 3.9k · 1,781 ft elevation
Living in Windber
Windber has a warm-summer humid continental climate: hot summers (July highs around 80°F) and cold winters (January lows around 21°F).
Precipitation is wet at about 41″ a year, and it is a snowy place (74″ a season).
Skies are partly sunny (51% of possible sunshine). Muggy weather is occasional (23 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 Windber: about 11% 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.
Windber at a glance
- Population
- 3.9k
- Elevation
- 1,781 ft
- Average daily high
- 59°F13th percentile
- Average daily low
- 42°F30th percentile
- Annual precipitation
- 41″40th percentile
- Annual snowfall
- 74″95th percentile
- Sunshine hours per year
- 2,328 hrs5th percentile
- Median AQI
- 3616th percentile
- Median home value
- $99k5th percentile
- Median rent
- $753/mo9th percentile
- Median household income
- $53k19th percentile
- Property tax rate
- 1.15%59th percentile
- Top state income-tax rate
- 3.1%
- Sales tax (state + local)
- 6.3%
- Unemployment rate
- 6.8%
- Homes with broadband
- 81%10th percentile
- Walkability index
- 8.346th percentile
- Average commute
- 18 min
- Math proficiency (8th grade)
- 47%52th percentile
- Reading proficiency (8th grade)
- 72%
- Violent crime rate
- 516 per 100k89th percentile
- Property crime rate
- 430 per 100k
- Overall natural-hazard risk
- 6419th percentile
- Outdoor access
- 8483th percentile
- Public land within 10 miles
- 13%
- Public land within 30 miles
- 11%
- Mountain relief within 30 miles
- 1,444 ft
Climate by month
| Month | High | Low | Precipitation | Snow | Sunshine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 35°F | 21°F | 2.5″ | 23.6″ | 111 hrs |
| Feb | 38°F | 23°F | 2.5″ | 17.5″ | 128 hrs |
| Mar | 46°F | 30°F | 3.1″ | 9.6″ | 167 hrs |
| Apr | 60°F | 40°F | 3.5″ | 2.6″ | 204 hrs |
| May | 70°F | 51°F | 4.1″ | — | 235 hrs |
| Jun | 77°F | 59°F | 4.4″ | — | 270 hrs |
| Jul | 80°F | 63°F | 4.2″ | — | 296 hrs |
| Aug | 79°F | 62°F | 4.0″ | — | 273 hrs |
| Sep | 72°F | 54°F | 4.0″ | — | 226 hrs |
| Oct | 61°F | 44°F | 3.1″ | 1.2″ | 174 hrs |
| Nov | 49°F | 35°F | 3.1″ | 4.8″ | 147 hrs |
| Dec | 40°F | 26°F | 2.7″ | 14.8″ | 97 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