50 Christmas Towns USA (one per state)

Christmas towns by state of the United States. Listing compiled by HGTV in an article titled “Our 50 Favorite Small Towns to Visit for Christmas” by Joe Sills and Meredith Rosenberg. Mapping and geographic analysis.

0:00 Intro
0:22 Christmas towns first half
2:08 Christmas towns second half
3:55 Final map
4:09 Latitude and Climate of Christmas towns
5:31 Demographics of Christmas towns
6:13 End

Keywords: Geography Viz, USA, 50 Christmas Towns, Christmas Towns by state, map, climate, demographics

Methods and Sources:

Joe Sills and Meredith Rosenberg “Our 50 Favorite Small Towns to Visit for Christmas” HGTV https://www.hgtv.com/lifestyle/travel... (accessed 12/10/2023)

Place name geocoding by Esri geocoding service using city and state name

Temperature and snow data are December 25 point estimates of mean 2000-2019 temperature_2m and snow_depth bands of Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) (2017): ERA5: Fifth generation of ECMWF atmospheric reanalyses of the global climate. Copernicus Climate Change Service Climate Data Store (CDS), (accessed 12/10/2023s), https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cds...

Probability of Christmas snow cover: NCEI_historic_Christmas_Snow_Stats_CONUS https://noaa.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/... (accessed 12/10/2023)

Demographic data obtained from Enrich ArcGIS tool using geocoded place name points, 10 mi radius

Esri Navigation base map

Music by Jingle Punks