https://github.com/nicell/where-to-live

Find the best places to live in the US by weather
https://github.com/nicell/where-to-live

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Find the best places to live in the US by weather

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nicell/where-to-live
• Owner: Nicell
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-07-18T15:55:55.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-21T05:21:52.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-23T13:59:01.391Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Homepage: https://nicell.github.io/where-to-live
• Size: 1.81 MB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# 🌎 Where to Live

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A website to show the best places to live based on weather in the US

# ✨ How it works

Using NOAA weather data from 2008 to 2024, we calculate the average number of pleasant and unpleasant days for each month. We then combine those to display a heatmap of the best places to live by weather.

We calculate the **perceived temperature**, which takes into account relative humidity, to more accurately evaluate the temperature.

A pleasant day is counted when all of the following are met:

 - Average perceived temperature between 60°F and 80°F

 - Maximum perceived temperature below 85°F

 - Minimum perceived temperature above 50°F

 - [Visibility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visibility) of more than 5

 - Less than .05" of precipitation

An unpleasant day is counted when any of the following are met:

 - Average perceived temperature below 40°F

 - Average perceived temperature above 85°F

 - [Visibility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visibility) of less than 5

 - Any snow, hail, thunder, or tornados

 - More than .1" of precipitation

All other days are not counted and are instead considered normal days.

# 📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

# 🤝 Acknowledgments

 - [Kelly Norton](https://github.com/kellegous) for the [pleasant-places](https://github.com/kellegous/pleasant-places) repository, which we used as reference and inspiration.

 - [Spencer Mortensen](http://spencermortensen.com) for his [article](http://spencermortensen.com/articles/bezier-circle/) explaining how to create very accurate circle approximations using bezier curves, which we used for creating circles and curves in HTML canvas.