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.

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