I had to convince my preteen niece, unused to a scarf, that it is fashionable in other places. Northerners may think this list sounds obvious but us southerners usually don’t wear all that unless we are skiing. The scarf is your best friend when it’s windy.
Or a puffy jacket/ vest and shell- this is a good combo that covers a lot of potential weather scenarios. Warm jackets that are also waterproof (good for rain and wind). *February is a bit better than January with 10-11 hours of daylight and a sunset after 5 pm. The Bunker Hill Monument is beautifully lit at night for instance. It means you are either squeezing all the sights into a shorter amount of time, or you are happy seeing some attractions in the dark. This is not helpful when most of the tourist sites don’t open until 10 am.
Because Boston is so far east, the sun rises early (around 7 am) and sets early (before 5 pm) giving you a little more than 9 hours of daylight. The wind can be a game changer (as any coastal person knows first hand) and Boston is more likely to have higher average wind speeds in winter than summer (9 mph versus 5 mph) so watch out for that.Īs a tourist, the only real drawback was the limited daylight. It also generally gets less than an inch of snow in January or February. It did drizzle rain one day, but it is actually no more likely to rain in winter than other times of the year (8 days on average per month). We were lucky and had above average temperatures most of the days we were there with a high around 50 and a low around 40 (historic averages are 36-40 and 23- 28). Boston’s proximity to the ocean keeps it more moderate than its latitude might suggest. This is not to say it was warm, it just wasn’t the frigid conditions I was anticipating. It was not nearly as cold as I was expecting. Speaking Of The Weather, What Was It Like In January?
Only in a few places, Boston Common being one (because it is a park and it was really windy the day we saw it), did we spend less time than we would have at other times of year. And the lack of fellow tourists meant I saw some of the places more thoroughly and learned more than I ever have on previous visits. The sites are close enough together that you can walk a little, then pop into a building to tour it and warm up a bit. It turns out, however, I like it better than doing it during the summer. I was a little worried about walking the trail during winter and thought the kids might complain about being cold. I always try to walk at least part of the Freedom Trail anytime I visit Boston, because it is a great way to explore the highlights of the city while getting a refresher course on some of the most important events and people from our colonial and revolutionary days.
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