Stay Cool · Coverage Index
Cities.
Stay Cool routes around shade in 37cities — across the US, Europe, MENA, and Asia-Pacific. Every city has a sidewalk-level graph annotated with real building heights and live sun position, so the app picks the cooler side of every street for any route you walk. Each city page below has the most reliably-shaded routes we've found, the climate facts that matter (summer UV, average July high, tree canopy), and links into the deeper field-note essays for that city.
US · Northeast · 5
- New YorkNY · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for New York City. Best shaded walks in NYC by neighborhood, time of day, and season.UV 9·84°F·22% canopy
- WashingtonDC · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Washington DC. Best shaded walks by neighborhood, time of day, and season — modeled on verified DC Open Data building heights.UV 9·89°F·37% canopy
- BostonMA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Boston. Best shaded walks across Beacon Hill, the Common, Back Bay, and the Freedom Trail, modeled on verified BostonMaps building heights.UV 8·82°F·27% canopy
- PhiladelphiaPA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Philadelphia. Best shaded walks in Center City, Old City, Rittenhouse, and along the Schuylkill, modeled on verified PhillyHistoric building heights.UV 9·87°F·20% canopy
- MarrakechMA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Marrakech. Best shaded walks through the Medina, the souks, Gueliz, and the gardens — modeled on OSM building heights, with honest notes on a city built around its shade.UV 11·99°F·5% canopy
US · South · 10
- MiamiFL · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Miami. Best shaded walks by neighborhood, modeled on Miami-Dade GIS building footprints with verified heights.UV 9·89°F·20% canopy
- AtlantaGA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Atlanta. Best shaded walks across the BeltLine, Piedmont Park, Inman Park, and Midtown — modeled on verified Fulton County GIS building heights, with honest notes on tree canopy.UV 10·89°F·47% canopy
- AustinTX · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Austin. Best shaded walks along Lady Bird Lake, Zilker, and South Congress — modeled on TNRIS LIDAR building heights.UV 11·97°F·31% canopy
- DallasTX · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Dallas. Best shaded walks through downtown, Klyde Warren, the Katy Trail, and Deep Ellum — modeled on TNRIS LIDAR building heights.UV 11·96°F·28% canopy
- HoustonTX · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Houston. Best shaded walks along Buffalo Bayou, Hermann Park, and Discovery Green — modeled on TNRIS LIDAR building heights, built for a city where the heat index lives at 105°F.UV 11·94°F·33% canopy
- San AntonioTX · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in San Antonio. Best shaded walks along the River Walk, Mission Trail, Pearl, and King William — modeled on TNRIS LIDAR building heights, with the river channel weighted as the infrastructure it is.UV 11·95°F·38% canopy
- TampaFL · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Tampa. Best shaded walks along Bayshore Boulevard, the Riverwalk, Hyde Park, and Ybor City — modeled on OSM building heights, with honest notes on canopy and afternoon storms.UV 11·90°F·28% canopy
- JacksonvilleFL · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Jacksonville. Best shaded walks across the Northbank Riverwalk, San Marco, and Riverside-Avondale — modeled on OSM building heights with honest notes on live-oak canopy.UV 11·92°F·30% canopy
- New OrleansLA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for New Orleans. Best shaded walks across the French Quarter, Garden District, and Magazine Street — modeled on OSM building heights, with honest notes on gallery cover and live-oak canopy.UV 11·91°F·31% canopy
- CharlestonSC · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Charleston. Best shaded walks across the Battery, King Street, Rainbow Row, and the historic single-house blocks — modeled on OSM building heights at 32.78°N, where 1670s street geometry does most of the work.UV 10·91°F·45% canopy
US · Midwest · 3
- ChicagoIL · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Chicago. Best shaded walks by neighborhood and time of day, modeled on Cook County building heights.UV 8·84°F·19% canopy
- Kansas CityMO · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Kansas City. Best shaded walks across Country Club Plaza, Crossroads, and the Power & Light District — modeled on OSM building heights, with honest notes on Missouri summer humidity.UV 9·89°F·22% canopy
- Tel AvivIL · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Tel Aviv. Best shaded walks across the White City, Rothschild Boulevard, Carmel Market, and the Tayelet — modeled on OSM building heights at 32.08°N.UV 10·85°F·12% canopy
US · West · 9
- San FranciscoCA · 2 routesShade-aware walking routes in San Francisco. Best shaded walks by neighborhood, with hill-aware shade modeling.UV 9·67°F·13% canopy
- Los AngelesCA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Los Angeles. Best shaded walks in LA by neighborhood, time of day, and microclimate, modeled on OSM building heights.UV 11·83°F·21% canopy
- PhoenixAZ · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Phoenix. Best shaded walks downtown and through Tempe, modeled on verified Maricopa County building footprints — built for a city where heat is a public-health emergency.UV 11·106°F·12% canopy
- SeattleWA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Seattle. Best shaded walks across Pike Place, Pioneer Square, Capitol Hill, and South Lake Union — modeled on OSM building heights at 47.6°N, where summer shadows stay long all day.UV 8·78°F·28% canopy
- San DiegoCA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for San Diego. Best shaded walks across Balboa Park, the Gaslamp Quarter, the Embarcadero, and La Jolla — with honest notes on where coastal wind matters more than canopy.UV 10·76°F·13% canopy
- SacramentoCA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Sacramento. Best shaded walks across Midtown, Capitol Mall, Old Sacramento, and McKinley Park — modeled on OSM building heights, with honest notes on the City of Trees canopy.UV 10·94°F·19% canopy
- Palm SpringsCA · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Palm Springs. Best shaded walks along Palm Canyon Drive, the Backstreet Art District, and the canyon mouths — modeled on OSM building heights for a 108°F desert resort city where the architecture, not the trees, does the cooling.UV 11·108°F·10% canopy
- Salt Lake CityUT · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Salt Lake City. Best shaded walks across Temple Square, downtown, and Sugar House — modeled on OSM building heights at 4,226 ft, where dry-altitude UV runs harder than the temperature suggests.UV 10·93°F·16% canopy
- TucsonAZ · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Tucson. Best shaded walks through El Presidio, 4th Avenue, and the University district — modeled on OSM building heights at 32.22°N, where the desert canopy is the city.UV 11·101°F·14% canopy
Europe · 5
- LondonUK · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for London. Best shaded walks across Westminster, the City, and the royal parks — modelled on OpenStreetMap building heights, for a city where the heatwave is now the rule.UV 7·73°F·21% canopy
- ParisFR · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes in Paris. Best shaded walks across the Marais, the grands boulevards, and the quais, modeled on OpenStreetMap building heights — with BD TOPO ingest queued.UV 8·77°F·21% canopy
- AthensGR · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Athens. Best shaded walks through Plaka, Monastiraki, Syntagma, and Kolonaki — modeled on OSM building heights, the best-tagged dataset in the Mediterranean thanks to local mapathons.UV 10·92°F·12% canopy
- RomeIT · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Rome. Best shaded walks through the centro storico, Trastevere, and the Jewish Ghetto — modeled on OSM building heights at 41.9°N, where summer shadows fall short and the palazzi do the work.UV 9·88°F·30% canopy
- LisbonPT · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Lisbon. Best shaded walks across Alfama, Bairro Alto, and Belém — modeled on OSM building heights at 38.7°N, where seven hills and the Atlantic breeze share the cooling work.UV 10·83°F·22% canopy
MENA · 1
Asia-Pacific & Other · 4
- TokyoJP · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Tokyo. Best shaded walks across Shibuya, Marunouchi, and Asakusa, modeled on OSM building heights — PLATEAU CityGML integration queued for Tier A.UV 10·85°F·24% canopy
- SeoulKR · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Seoul. Best shaded walks across Bukchon, Insadong, Gangnam, and the Han River parks — modeled on OSM building heights with active OSM-KR community mapping support.UV 9·84°F·20% canopy
- Mexico CityMX · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Mexico City. Best shaded walks across Centro Histórico, Roma, Condesa, and Chapultepec — modeled on OSM building heights at 19.43°N and 7,350 ft, where cool air hides extreme UV.UV 13·80°F·28% canopy
- BrisbaneAU · 3 routesShade-aware walking routes for Brisbane. Best shaded walks across the CBD, South Bank, New Farm, and the West End — modeled on OSM building heights, built for a subtropical summer where January is the peak.UV 12·85°F·25% canopy
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