Travel to the United States

Travel to the United States

Star restaurants and fast food culture. Luxury hotel and bizarre motel. Art temple and rodeo. 88,000 km of highways and dusty, endless prairies. God’s own land extends from Mount McKinley to Death Valley, from Manhattan’s elegant skyline over the rugged Rocky Mountains to swimsuits with Hollywood stars in California. Here are vibrant metropolises that never sleep and national parks where you only hear the sound of snorting bison. The world’s superpower is many things at once and a magnet for all the peoples of the earth. The United States is created from the material that dream countries are made of.

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Population: 321 million

Capital: Washington DC

Language: English

Although English is the most widely spoken language in the United States, does the United States not have an official language at all?

the melody to the US national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” comes from a British drink song from the late 18th century; “The Anacreontic Song”?

New York

The Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building tower between hundreds of soaring glass and steel office buildings. Below Central Park you go roller skating, in SoHo and Tribeca art is shopped and after the work artists and gallery owners take the road home across the Brooklyn Bridge to the new inner city Williamsburg. You always have the feeling of having been here before – even on your first visit. The New York skyline with Manhattan’s huge skyscrapers has been reproduced so many times on film that it can sometimes be difficult to see the difference between fiction and reality. But it evokes strong emotions when you look at it up close.

The east coast of the United States

But the United States is, of course, much more than Wall Street, Chinatown, Little Italy, Times Square, Broadway and The Big Apple. If you travel to the east coast of the United States, New York City is a must, just like the Freedom Clock in Philadelphia, the casino and seaside resort of Atlantic City, the White House in Washington DC or the nature around Niagara Falls and Shenandoah National Park.

It is also worth visiting the ancient and very “European” New England – the northeastern corner of the United States with the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine as well as the prestigious Harvard and Yale universities. Outside the big city of Boston, which is flooded with book cafes in the North End and the atmosphere in Beacon Hill, you can spend an idyllic holiday in forests full of maple, ash, oak, birch and beech.

Rocky mountains and the Midwest

If you want to travel even further away from America’s big cities, you should holiday in the Rocky Mountains and the Wild West with the states of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. It looks like a living postcard with vast horizons, vast mountain ranges and impressive national parks such as Yellowstone. Not too far away are the prairies of Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota, with Mount Rushmore and the famous monument of the four presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, whose huge stone faces are as tall as six-story buildings. Do not forget Chicago and the Great Lakes – the old gangster city has turned into an exciting architectural dream city with an impressive skyline adorned by the 443 meter high Sears Tower, which is now the USA: s second tallest skyscraper after the One World Trade Center at 541 meters. But Chicago not only boasts tall buildings, the city also has an exciting and rich musical life.

The west coast of the United States

There is also a lot of music in Seattle or The Emerald City, with the Olympic Mountains as a beautiful backdrop to the west and the 4,400 m high Mount Rainier to the southeast. The city that became world famous for the grunge music style in the 1990s has also very aptly got its own music museum designed by star architect Frank O. Gehry. From Seattle you can go north towards Vancouver in Canada or south along the Pacific coast where you can see whales, dolphins and sea lions. Many people want to treat themselves to a holiday in sunny California with San Francisco, Hollywood and the small town of Solvang, which has a clear Danish character. Also, make sure to catch a visit to Joshua Tree National Park, which is named after the small palm tree that has adapted to the harsh conditions of California’s Mojave Desert. The park is located on the border between two desert types – on one side the lower and barren Colorado desert in the south and on the other side the lush and higher Mojave desert a little further north. There is also plenty to experience in states such as Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico: From nature experiences in the Grand Canyon over neon-flashing arcades in Las Vegas to the exotic Santa Fe.

Southern states of the United States

The southwestern United States offers a unique opportunity to travel into the soul of Native American cultures, such as the Great Navajo Reservation and all of the Pueblo Indian villages of New Mexico. You can also make a music trip to jazz’s hometown of New Orleans, country music capital Nashville and Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. If you are more into big cars and motorcycles, such as Chevrolet, Buick or Harley Davidson, you should of course travel along the legendary Route 66. The road from Chicago to Los Angeles stretches over 3,939 kilometers and goes through eight states.

Climate and weather USA

Below you can get an overview of the climate and weather in the USA – including the cities of New York and Los Angeles.

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN CHRISTMAS AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
New York
Daytime temperature 4 5 10 16 22 26 29 28 24 18 12 6
Night temperature -3 -2 1 7 12 18 20 20 16 10 5 0
Precipitation (mm) 93 79 111 114 106 112 117 113 109 112 102 102
New Orleans
Daytime temperature 16 18 21 25 29 32 33 33 30 26 22 17
Night temperature 8 10 13 17 22 24 26 26 24 19 14 9
Precipitation (mm) 130 123 121 102 110 168 144 133 105 79 104 124
San Francisco
Daytime temperature 14 16 17 17 18 19 19 20 21 21 17 14
Night temperature 8 9 9 10 11 12 12 13 13 12 10 8
Precipitation (mm) 114 113 83 37 18 4 0 2 5 28 80 116
Los Angeles
Daytime temperature 20 20 21 23 24 26 28 29 28 26 23 20
Night temperature 9 10 11 12 14 16 18 18 17 15 11 9
Precipitation (mm) 79 97 62 23 7 2 0 1 6 17 26 59
Las Vegas
Daytime temperature 14 17 21 26 32 37 40 39 34 27 19 14
Night temperature 4 6 10 13 19 24 27 26 22 15 8 4
Precipitation (mm) 14 19 11 4 3 2 10 8 6 7 9 13
Miami
Daytime temperature 24 24 25 27 28 30 31 31 31 29 26 24
Night temperature 17 18 19 21 24 25 26 26 26 24 21 19
Precipitation (mm) 56 59 70 69 129 210 101 149 191 117 72 51
Honolulu
Daytime temperature 27 27 27 28 29 31 31 32 31 30 29 27
Night temperature 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 24 24 23 22 20
Precipitation (mm) 59 51 51 16 16 7 13 14 18 47 62 82

According to bridgat, the weather and climate in the United States vary greatly, not least because of the size of the country: in Alaska the climate is arctic, in Florida it is tropical. It is typically chilly and temperate climate in the northwestern areas, and much warmer in the southwestern, subtropical areas.

In the Midwest lies the ‘tornado belt’ that stretches from Minnesota in the north, across central Kansas and to Texas in the south. On the Atlantic coast, it is typically hurricane season and warnings between June and September.

Keep in mind that there may be large climate differences between the different places on some of our trips. In practice, this can mean that on one and the same day you experience minus degrees and snow in the morning in the Bryce Canyon National Park, and later the same day + 20˚C in Las Vegas.

Travel to the United States