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The Most Humid Cities In The World, Mapped

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The Most Humid Cities In The World, Mapped
From dry to muggy, humid weather can be categorized in many different ways. Here's a dew point based analysis of the world's most humid cities. (From 2022)
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Humidity, or the amount of water vapor in air, changes as we travel around the world. HouseFresh further broke down humidity by assigning it a comfort leve, based on what dew point temperatures make skin perspiration evaporate.

From dry (lower end of the spectrum) to miserable, HouseFresh used Weather Spark data to see what kind of humidity cities around the world experience. They scanned over 18,000 cities across continents. Here's what they found.


Key Takeaways

  • The world's most humid city is Patna, India, where the humidity level is 99.2 percent. Some of the world's other most humid cities are also located in India and its neighboring countries Bangladesh and Myanmar.

  • Europe's most humid city is Höfn, Iceland, where the humidity level is 99.1 percent, which is more than one-third more humid than the second placed city Athy, Ireland (60.1 percent).

  • America's top 20 most humid cities, where levels range from 36.8 to 48.7 percent, are all in Florida and include: Pinellas Park, Deerfield Beach, Miami, Coral Gables and more.



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Most Humid Cities Map


Most Humid Cities Every US State



Via HouseFresh.

Comments

  1. Kavika 3 months ago

    Patna, listed as the most humid city, does not even have close to 92% humidity, and the description of miserable is literally copy-pasted from some other inaccurate article. Every comment here says there is misinformation. Considering this showed up 2nd on my search for humid cities, I'm guessing the 'writer' has just put together some rubbish for SEO. Wish these peddlers of misinformation could be blocked/moderated somehow.🙄

  2. Albert Solano 6 months ago

    Miami, FL has an average humidity of 75%. I'm not sure where these guys are getting their data from.

  3. Maria 1 year ago

    Cannot see UK listed

  4. Dan Kruep 1 year ago

    I really don't think Hofn Iceland is the most humid European city. I think it's humidity level is practically 0%. Maybe the intern wrote the article. Maybe I'm wrong. Scratch

  5. Christopher Spata 1 year ago

    I thought Florida was bad.

  6. Neal Collins 1 year ago

    I'm a native Mempian in TN. When Hollywood types come here in the summer to film they say"man this is hot"..its funny! When you combine the plentiful supply of public water for summertime watering of very thick lawns and our usual temperatures, I'll put our city up against anywhere on this rock we live on as sopping wet humid. If you don't live here and visit it's overwhelming.

  7. Matthew Thiry 1 year ago

    For anyone wondering why this seems inaccurate, it’s because the people making it don’t understand how humidity works. I’m a meteorology undergrad and something most people don’t understand is that the % humidity you always see has nothing to do with how humid it feels. ThT value is called relative humidity and it’s a measure of how close the air is to saturation, or the point in which the air can no longer hold moisture. So 100% humidity air is saturated and can no longer hold any more moisture. 50% humidity is 50% to its saturation point. The thing is, the warmer the air the more moisture it can hold. So you can be 100% humidity but if the air is cool it won’t be humid. If the temperature is 90 degrees Fahrenheit(hot) the air can hold a lot of moisture and 50% humidity will feel quite humid. A better representation of how humid the air will feel is dew point, which is the temperature in which the air will be at 100% humidity. The higher the dew point the more humid it will feel. Dew points of 70+ are oppressive, 60s are sticky, 50s are comfortable to maybe slightly sticky in the high 50s for people not used to humid weather.

  8. BIFF JACKSON 1 year ago

    In USA highly HUMID CITIES ARE: HOUSTON,TX.; NEW ORLEANS,LA, SAN ANTONIO,TX;SAVANNAH,GA; MONTGOMERY AL. , I have been to each of them

  9. Mr.Awesome 1 year ago

    This does not seem accurate at all

  10. Bo Vance 1 year ago

    Yes this is incredibly inaccurate. Washougal, Washington on their map is where Portland is located.. which is fairly humid.

    I wouldn't believe a damn thing this map says...

  11. Dan S 1 year ago

    That map of the US is a hot mess. Hardly any pointer is pointing to the city that it mentions (or even the right state for that matter). It has Arizona listed as "Muggy" and Oregon as "Dry". This is just a fraction of what's wrong with this map. The people that put this together have absolutely no idea how to report a story via images. They are completely and utterly lost.

    1. crystal heckel 1 year ago

      I agree completely with you, Dan. I live in Oregon, and I know how drastic the differences between places is, just in my state alone. The coast is often subject to the marine layer, with dense fog and high humidity. In contrast, our eastern side is landlocked dry desert. This map doesn't account for any of these more accurate local pockets of humidity. It's just blanket statements lumping nearly whole countries into one level of humidity. This feels like BS clickbait.

      1. Bo Vance 1 year ago

        I am from central WA and even if these are averages it feels way off.

        Also it says that Washougal WA is where Portland OR actually is.. what

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