Manhattan
City in United States: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Above Gotham: Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Manhattan is a city in United States, in New York. About 1.5 million people live in the city proper, making it the 10th largest city of United States in our atlas.
It lies at 40.78° N, 73.97° W, about 35 m (115 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/New_York time zone.
Location
Red dot: Manhattan. Green dots: other major cities of United States. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Manhattan has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 29°C (84°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -6°C (21°F). Around 1,236 mm (49 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, spread fairly evenly through the year.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in United StatesNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- New York City · 8 km
- The Bronx · 11 km
- Brooklyn · 15 km
- Queens · 16 km
- Philadelphia · 137 km
- Washington · 332 km
- Chicago · 1,156 km
- Jacksonville · 1,328 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 5125771 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q11299 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
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- Above Gotham: Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Chrysler Building by David Shankbone Retouched: w:User:Overand derivative work: Overand (talk), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- New york times square-terabass: Terabass, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- NYC - Guggenheim Museum: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Trump-Tower-3: Unknown, CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- OBP - Ext - 42nd East: Ryan Browne, Cook+Fox Architects, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza viewed from 5th Avenue, August 29, 2024 (cropped): D. Benjamin Miller, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Metlife building from empire state building: Unknown, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- 432 Park Avenue, NY (cropped): Epistola8, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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