PITTSBURGH - PENNSYLVANIA

Best Time to Visit Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

The entrance of Pittsburgh is an exceptionally visiting-card. But it’s not just the entrance: Pittsburgh and its downtown district are a truly travel highlight in Pennsylvania and in the United States.

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Best time to visit & travel to Pittsburgh
When not to go to Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Weather Table


PITTSBURGH'S MAIN GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES 

Most of the interesting sites, buildings, art galleries, museums or sceneries of Pittsburgh are located in downtown, popularly known as the Golden Triangle: the space edging the confluence of Allegheny River and Monongahela River into the Ohio River.

Pittsburgh travel destinations map




WHAT TO VISIT IN PITTSBURGH?

Gothic churches, historic streets and restaurants, museums, art galleries, all framed by the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers and mingled with contemporary architecture buildings and landscapes - that's Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle... 

Golden Triangle sites

Point State Park and Fort Pitt Blockhouse
The PPG complex building
The Market Square
The Mellon Arena
Hein Pittsburgh History Center
Convention Center
The Andy Warhol Museum

BEST TIME TO VISIT PITTSBURGH

Pittsburgh weather is very similar to that of New York and Philadelphia, but the number of wet days is higher. The weather is changeable, with high or moderate precipitation all over the year, and some heat waves in summer and cool weather in winter or even in the early spring. Snow is concentrated in winter months (it snows more in Pittsburgh than in Philadelphia).

Late-spring - May, June – or late-summer and early-fall – September, October are excellent months for visiting Pittsburgh.


WHEN NOT TO GO TO PITTSBURGH

Avoid the winter months, when temperatures may attain low levels. 

Humidity and high temperatures may turn some days of July and August uncomfortable, despite the moderating influence of the Lake Erie in Pittsburgh region. 

See the Pittsburgh Weather Table, below, for details.


Pittsburgh Weather Table

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