Cooling degree days: ranking of world cities

Order: highest value first. This indicator is neutral: a higher value does not mean a better one.

Cooling degree days: ranking of world cities: Dubai ranks first (4,505 °C·days per year) and Bogotá last (2 °C·days per year). The median across 41 world cities is 907 °C·days per year. Observation period: 2016-2025. Source: NOAA NCEI, GHCN-Daily.

Yearly sum of how far the mean daily temperature rises above 18 °C. The higher the value, the more homes need cooling.

Data quality: measured at a single station, often at an airport; not an average for the metro area; years with incomplete data are excluded.

#CityValue
1Dubai4,505 °C·days per year
2Doha4,282 °C·days per year
3Bangkok4,186 °C·days per year
4Manila4,054 °C·days per year
5Kuala Lumpur3,856 °C·days per year
6Singapore3,822 °C·days per year
7Jakarta3,762 °C·days per year
8Mumbai3,697 °C·days per year
9Riyadh3,480 °C·days per year
10Delhi3,064 °C·days per year
11Rio de Janeiro2,549 °C·days per year
12Guangzhou2,330 °C·days per year
13São Paulo1,330 °C·days per year
14Beijing1,108 °C·days per year
15Barcelona1,058 °C·days per year
16Casablanca1,003 °C·days per year
17Madrid952 °C·days per year
18Sydney950 °C·days per year
19Rome942 °C·days per year
20Buenos Aires936 °C·days per year
21Lima907 °C·days per year
22Budapest672 °C·days per year
23Bucharest570 °C·days per year
24Santiago566 °C·days per year
25Vienna466 °C·days per year
26Toronto435 °C·days per year
27Melbourne423 °C·days per year
28Paris339 °C·days per year
29Berlin286 °C·days per year
30Warsaw278 °C·days per year
31London180 °C·days per year
32Stockholm147 °C·days per year
33Vilnius147 °C·days per year
34Minsk144 °C·days per year
35Amsterdam130 °C·days per year
36Copenhagen104 °C·days per year
37Helsinki96 °C·days per year
38Tallinn94 °C·days per year
39Oslo90 °C·days per year
40Dublin24 °C·days per year
41Bogotá2 °C·days per year

Only places with a value for the indicator are ranked; a gap is not a zero. A ranking on one indicator is not an assessment of a place to live.

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