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The best hiking temperature is between 10 and 18 degrees Celsius, which surprises people who assume warm equals good. The reason is metabolic: sustained uphill walking raises your effective body temperature by the equivalent of eight to twelve degrees, so a 12 degree trailhead feels like a mild 22 degrees once you are twenty minutes into a climb, while a 25 degree trailhead becomes a heat-management problem. Above 24 degrees on exposed terrain, hydration demand roughly doubles and pace drops measurably. Below 5 degrees the risk shifts to the stops rather than the walking — you cool fast at viewpoints and on descents, which is where layering discipline matters. Humidity compounds heat sharply on trails because evaporative cooling is your primary mechanism: 24 degrees at 80 percent humidity is harder work than 29 degrees at 35 percent. Wind is a two-sided variable, welcome on a hot climb and hostile on an exposed ridge above 40 kilometres per hour, where balance on rocky ground becomes the real concern. Rain matters less for comfort than for surface: steady drizzle on a forest path is tolerable, the same rain on wet limestone or a scree traverse is not. Thunderstorm risk above treeline is an absolute stop, not a judgement call. Altitude adds roughly 6.5 degrees of cooling per thousand metres, so plan for the summit rather than the car park.
Scores are capped by dealbreakers — heavy rain, dangerous wind, thick fog or hazardous UV pull a day down no matter how pleasant the rest of the numbers look. Forecast data is Open-Meteo; solar and lunar values are computed for this location's own coordinates and time zone. Full details on the methodology page.