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Degree Days

Degree days measure the heating or cooling necessary to maintain temperature at a constant value or within a specific range. Wolfram|Alpha, with its extensive database of weather data, allows the easy calculation of cooling or heating degree days based on location, temperature parameters and time period.
Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Compute the heating and cooling degree days for a given location and period.

Calculate the degree days in a given location:

degree days Chicago
degree days Paris

Specify heating or cooling degree days:

cooling degree days
heating degree days in Buffalo

Calculate the heating and cooling degree days for a given period:

degree days June 1995 to October 1996
degree days June 2009 to October 2009 in Los Angeles
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