PITTSBURGH - PENNSYLVANIA
Best Time to Visit Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The entrance of Pittsburgh is particularly beautiful. But it’s not just its entrance that makes Pittsburgh and its downtown district 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 make 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 humid days is higher. The weather is changeable, with moderate to high precipitation all year long, with heat waves in the summer and cool weather in the winter and 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, as temperatures may reach low levels.
Humidity and high temperatures may turn some July and August days uncomfortable, despite the moderating influence of the Lake Erie in Pittsburgh region.
See the Pittsburgh Weather Table, below, for details.
Pittsburgh Weather Table
