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Temperatures, Precipitation, and Sunshine on campus:

Check below to read averages, minimums, and about daylight on the UC campus.

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During the School Year:
*all schools based on a 250 day school year

Daylight

Avg Number of daylight hours

12.2 hrs

Cornell University	↑0.1hrs
Harvard University	↑0.1hrs
Brown University	↑0.1hrs
Yale University	↑0.1hrs
Princeton University	↑0.1hrs
University of California Berkeley	~hrs
Stanford University	~hrs

Avg % of day spent cloudy

69.9%

Princeton University	↓28%
Yale University	↓26.6%
University of California Berkeley	↓14.8%
Harvard University	↓11.6%
Stanford University	↓11.5%
Brown University	↓5.3%
Cornell University	↓5.2%

Avg non-cloudy-ish sunlight hours
(subtracting away average cloudiness)

3.7 hrs

Princeton University	↑3.5
Yale University	↑3.3
University of California Berkeley	↑1.8
Harvard University	↑1.5
Stanford University	↑1.4
Brown University	↑0.7
Cornell University	↑0.7

Precipitation

Avg % of day spent precipitating

0.0%

Stanford University	↑3.2%
University of California Berkeley	↑5.1%
Yale University	↑7.4%
Princeton University	↑8.8%
Harvard University	↑10.1%
Brown University	↑11.8%
Cornell University	↑13.4%

Temperatures

Average Temperature

48.0F

Stanford University	↑8.6F
University of California Berkeley	↑6.9F
Princeton University	↓1.3F
Yale University	↓3.1F
Brown University	↓3.5F
Harvard University	↓3.7F
Cornell University	↓8.8F

Maximum Temperature

87.8F

Cornell University	↑25.2F
Stanford University	↑10.8F
University of California Berkeley	↑9.0F
Harvard University	↑7.2F
Princeton University	↑5.4F
Brown University	↑3.6F
Yale University	↓3.6F

Minimum Temperature

1.4F

University of California Berkeley	↑27.0F
Stanford University	↑23.4F
Princeton University	~F
Yale University	↓3.6F
Brown University	↓7.2F
Harvard University	↓9F
Cornell University	↓18F

Windchill Minimum

-24.4F

University of California Berkeley	↑46.9F
Stanford University	↑43.4F
Yale University	↑3.3F
Princeton University	↑0.7F
Cornell University	↓7.3F
Brown University	↓9.4F
Harvard University	↓13.8F

Relevant quotes pertaining to the weather

“... Though the winters were indeed cold, it was worth it to experience the daily exhilaration of being at Chicago ...”
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“... It is a cold grey place in every way ...”
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“... But now that I am here I am miserable, cold, usually bored, annoyed by and hostile to most of the students I know, and seriously considering tra...”
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“... There are those seem to think otherwise, and they are the people who spend four years complaining about the work, the people, the weather, the f...”
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“... Students go to the city a lot, although some complain we're too far, it usually quick to get there, but can get annoying when your waiting for a ...”
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“... Though the winters were indeed cold, it was worth it to experience the daily exhilaration of being at Chicago ...”
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“... Winters are cold and dreary, but things pick up during the Spring ...”
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“... There very little you can find at other institutions that you can't find at UChicago (besides warm weather) ...”
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“... Added to all of this is the fact that Chicago winters are COLD forcing the pulse of social life to sometimes be declared clinically dead ...”
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“... Final note: they aren't kidding about Chicago winters being cold ...”
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