Top 20 U.S. Cities For St. Patrick’s Day
With St. Patrick’s Day less than a week away, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released their report on 2017’s Best Cities for St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations.
To determine the best cities for celebrating Irish-American heritage, WalletHub’s number crunchers compared 200 of the largest U.S. cities across 16 key metrics, ranging from “Irish pubs and restaurants per capita” to “lowest price for a three-star hotel on St. Patrick’s Day” to “weather forecast.”
Here are their results:
| Top 20 Cities for St. Patrick’s Day | |||||
| 1 | Buffalo, NY | 11 | Naperville, IL | ||
| 2 | Madison, WI | 12 | Rochester, NY | ||
| 3 | Boston, MA | 13 | Cincinnati, OH | ||
| 4 | Cedar Rapids, IA | 14 | Chicago, IL | ||
| 5 | Worcester, MA | 15 | Springfield, MA | ||
| 6 | Pittsburgh, PA | 16 | Springfield, MO | ||
| 7 | Akron, OH | 17 | St. Paul, MN | ||
| 8 | Tampa, FL | 18 | Overland Park, KS | ||
| 9 | Philadelphia, PA | 19 | Sioux Falls, SD | ||
| 10 | Cleveland, OH | 20 | Grand Rapids, MI | ||
To view the full report and your city’s rank, click here.
St. Patrick’s Day Facts
- 72 Minutes – Interval at which alcohol-related car crashes claim a life on St. Patrick’s Day.
- $3,762 – Cost of an Uber ride from Boston to Dublin, Ohio (versus up to $24,000 for the total DUI cost).
- $1.22 Million – Market value of a leprechaun’s pot of gold, which contains 1,000 gold coins weighing 1 ounce each.
- 13 Million – Pints of Guinness that will be consumed worldwide on St. Patrick’s Day.
- $5.3 Billion – Amount that will be spent collectively on St. Patrick’s Day 2017 (or $38 per person celebrating).
Credit: WalletHub.com
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