CITY PROFILE
Syracuse, NY
WHAT LIVING HERE IS LIKE
Syracuse is a smaller metro with moderately priced homes, making it accessible without requiring top-tier savings. Expect a temperate four-season climate with often-cloudy skies and a wet climate—winters are real and gray, summers mild. It's a compact city where you can get established without breaking the bank, suited to people comfortable with cloud cover and regular precipitation.
By the numbers
| Typical home value | $265K · Zillow, May 2026 (ZHVI) |
|---|---|
| Typical rent | $1,633/mo · Zillow, May 2026 (ZORI) |
| Average temperature | 8.8°C · warmest 22.4°C · coolest -5.1°C · NASA POWER |
| Annual precipitation | 1110 mm · NASA POWER |
| Sunshine (solar energy) | 3.59 kWh/m²/day · NASA POWER (annual mean) |
| Metro size rank (US) | #91 · Zillow SizeRank |
Match scores
- Affordable to buy90
- Affordable to rent72
- Climate comfort38
- Plenty of sunshine31
- Big-city amenities78
Scores are 0–100, normalised across the metros we cover, derived from the sourced figures above (higher = better on that factor). A research aid, not a recommendation to move. Job market, safety, and healthcare access need key-gated feeds (BLS, FBI, Census) not yet wired — see the methodology.
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