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Tap Use my location to read the humidity today near you — relative humidity, dew point and comfort level for the station closest to your device.
Readings update every hour.
Comfort level
Muggy
Air temperature is 70°F, and the air saturates at 60°F.
Trend today
Rising
+21 points over the last three hours.
Why it matters: High humidity makes it feel hotter than the thermometer says. Humidity Today charts every hour ahead so you can see when it will peak near you — around 4 AM, at 88%.
Humidity is not the same everywhere — your local reading depends on where you are right now. Two people in the same city can feel very different humidity levels depending on their exact location.
If you live near a coast, large lake, or river, the air around you holds more moisture — which means your local humidity will almost always be higher than a weather station 20 miles inland. That is why "humidity near me" matters more than the city-wide average: your actual location determines what the air feels like.
Higher elevations tend to have lower dew points because cooler air at altitude holds less moisture. If you are in a mountain town, your "humidity today near me" reading could be 20–30% lower than the nearest valley city — even if they share the same weather forecast. This is why checking humidity by your actual location, not by ZIP code, gives you a more accurate picture.
People in large cities often notice their "humidity today near me" reading sits 5–15% above the suburbs a short drive away, and it is rarely an instrument error. Concrete, asphalt and masonry absorb heat all day and release it slowly through the evening, creating what meteorologists call an urban heat island. Warmer air holds more water vapour than cool air, so a downtown block can stay measurably muggier than the countryside around it even when there is no water anywhere nearby.
The built environment adds moisture of its own on top of that. Air conditioning condensers dump warm, damp exhaust into narrow streets, vehicle engines release water vapour as they burn fuel, and every square metre of paving is a square metre that is no longer a park, a lawn, or a tree canopy able to cool the air through shade and evaporation. Tall buildings then trap the result: air moves slowly through a street canyon, so heat and humidity accumulate instead of dispersing.
The practical consequence is that a city-wide forecast tends to describe conditions at an airport on the edge of town — open, exposed, and several degrees cooler than the centre. Reading humidity from your own GPS position instead picks up the station that actually shares your surroundings, which is why the number here can differ noticeably from a national weather app. If you are deciding whether to run, cycle, or leave a window open, that difference is the part that matters.
When you tap "Use my location," your browser asks permission and then shares your approximate coordinates with our weather data provider. We never store them on our servers. From those coordinates we pull relative humidity, dew point, and temperature from the observation station closest to you — typically within a few miles. The reading refreshes every hour, so the number reflects current conditions rather than a daily average. If you would rather not share your location, type any city name into the search box instead: the same readings appear, sourced from that city's nearest station.
City weather readings usually come from a single official station, and that station is often at the airport — miles from the centre, at a different elevation, and surrounded by open tarmac rather than buildings or trees. Anything in your immediate surroundings that holds moisture will push your own reading above that average: proximity to water, sitting in a valley where cool damp air settles overnight, dense vegetation, or irrigated parks. The "humidity today near me" figure on this page comes from the station nearest your coordinates, so it tracks your surroundings far more closely than a city-wide number can.
Not usually, and the gap runs in both directions. Air conditioning strips moisture out of the air, so a cooled room often sits well below the outdoor reading. Heating does the same thing in winter by warming already-dry air, which is why indoor air feels parched in January. In the other direction, showers, cooking, drying laundry indoors and weak ventilation add moisture faster than a building can shed it, so a bathroom or kitchen can easily exceed outdoor levels on a humid day. Treat the outdoor figure here as the baseline your home is working against, and use a hygrometer for room-level precision.
Readings refresh every hour, matching the cadence at which national weather agencies publish station observations. Requesting the page more often than that returns the same values, so there is nothing to gain from reloading. Alongside the current figure you also get the next 24 hours as an hourly curve, which is usually the more useful view: it shows whether the air is drying out or turning stickier as the day goes on. Check back in an hour for a fresh observation, or read the curve now to see where conditions are heading.
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