What should I wear today?

Tell it where you are and it names the outfit: the layers, the shoes, and whether the jacket comes with you. Built on the feels-like temperature, not the number on the thermometer.

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Most people answer this question by glancing at the big number on their weather app. That number is the air temperature, and it is the wrong one to dress by. It knows nothing about the wind funnelling down your street, or the humidity that turns a mild 77°F into something you have sweated through by the bus stop.

The feels-like number does know. Everything below is built on it.

What to wear at every feels-like temperature

These are not rounded-off guidelines. They are the actual cut points inside the engine that runs the Comfie app, and the tool at the top of this page runs the same code.

Why the thermometer keeps lying to you

Here is the thing that makes a table like this useful instead of decorative.

Take a day that reads 60°F 16°C on your phone. Add 20 mph of wind and a grey sky and it feels like 55°F. Now take the same 60°F with still air and full sun on your back, and it feels like 65°F. Same number on the screen. Ten degrees apart in practice.

Run both through the engine and you get different answers. At a feels-like 55°F: t-shirt, hoodie, jeans, sneakers. At 65°F: long sleeve and jeans, no second layer at all. You would notice that difference within a block of walking.

So when someone tells you 60 degrees is hoodie weather, they are half right. It depends entirely on which 60 you got. Our breakdown of feels-like vs actual temperature covers where the gap comes from.

How the answer gets built

Every piece of clothing carries a warmth value. A t-shirt is worth 2 points. A long sleeve, hoodie, fleece or sweater is worth 3. A puffer jacket is 4, and a parka is 5. Each feels-like band has a target, and the engine adds pieces until it hits that target.

The 52 to 61°F band needs 5 points. That is why a t-shirt plus a hoodie works, and so does a long sleeve plus a light jacket. Both land on 5. Neither is more correct, which is why you will see this page reach for a hoodie and our jacket guide reach for a light jacket at the same temperature.

Once you see the arithmetic, a lot of clothing advice stops sounding like taste and starts sounding like addition.

When outerwear actually starts

Real outerwear starts at a feels-like 47°F 8°C. That is where a puffer vest enters the outfit. Between 48 and 61°F you need a mid-layer rather than a jacket, so a hoodie or a fleece over a shirt covers it. Above 62°F a long sleeve on its own is fine.

If that is the decision you came for, do I need a jacket today works through the whole range in detail.

Two things override the temperature.

Wind is the first. Past about 22 mph 35 km/h a windbreaker gets added no matter how mild the day looks, because a hoodie stops insulating once air is moving through it.

Rain is the second. Light rain gets you an umbrella and rain boots. Rain with real wind behind it swaps the umbrella for a rain jacket, since an umbrella at 30 mph is a liability rather than a tool.

When it is a bring-it, don't-wear-it day

The forecast tells you it is 44°F. What it does not tell you is that by 3pm it will be 68°F and you will be carrying a puffer around like luggage.

Spring and autumn do this constantly. A 25 degree swing between the morning walk and the afternoon one is not unusual, and dressing for either end alone guarantees you are wrong twice. The answer is almost always a layer you can shed rather than a coat you are committed to. We wrote up the whole approach in cold morning, warm afternoon.

If you run hot or cold

Here is where a website hits its ceiling, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

Every number on this page assumes an average person. You probably are not one. Some people are comfortable in a t-shirt at 55°F while their partner reaches for a fleece in the same room, and neither of them is wrong.

The Comfie app shifts the whole table for your body. Tell it you run cold and every band moves about 4°F 2°C. Rate a few days as too warm or too cold and it keeps adjusting from there, up to 10°F 6°C in either direction. Two opposite people end up 20 degrees apart on the same forecast, which is roughly the gap between a long sleeve and a puffer vest.

If you have ever wondered why you are shivering while everyone else is fine, that has real explanations.

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Quick answers

Does this work outside the US?

Yes. Search any city and you get its weather in local time, so a 9am answer for Tokyo is a Tokyo 9am and not yours. The °F and °C toggle switches the whole page.

Why does it say I need a jacket when it's 55 degrees out?

Check whether it really is 55. If the wind is up or the sky is grey, the feels-like number can sit in the 40s, which crosses into puffer vest territory. This page always dresses for the feels-like figure rather than the thermometer.

Do I need to allow location access?

No. The table above works without it, and you can search any city by name instead. Location access only saves you the typing.

How often does the answer update?

Every time you load the page. The weather comes from Open-Meteo and refreshes hourly. The umbrella call also scans the rest of today, so it can pack one for rain that has not started yet.

More on dressing for the weather

• Do I need a jacket today? Jacket weather by temperature.
• Hoodie and jeans weather. The 52 to 62°F rule.
• What to wear in 60 degree weather.
• What temperature is shorts weather? The 80°F line.
• Feels like vs actual temperature.
• Cold morning, warm afternoon. Dressing for a 25 degree swing.
• Why am I always cold when everyone else is fine?