Buffalo
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Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It lies in Western New York on the eastern shore of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River on the Canada-United States border. It is the second-most populous city in New York, with a population of 278,349 at the 2020 census. The Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area, with over 1.16 million residents, its is the 2nd-largest metropolitan area in New York State behind only the NYC Metro, and the 51st-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Buffalo is the county seat of Erie County.
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The next week in Buffalo
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
14° / 7°
UV High
Sat
Drizzle
21° / 8°
1.1 mm
UV High
Sun
Fog
22° / 10°
UV High
Mon
Drizzle
28° / 16°
0.8 mm
UV High
Tue
Overcast
27° / 18°
UV High
Wed
Showers
23° / 12°
4.7 mm
UV Moderate
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
31° / -2°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.6h
05:53 – 20:29local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Buffalo
5 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) at 13 km.
Getting around Buffalo
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
AmtrakVIA RailFlixbusTrain de CharlevoixAmtrak Chartered VehicleNFTA MetroNiagara Region TransitB MetroFullington TrailwaysCoach USA ErieAdirondack TrailwaysGreyhoundBarons Bus Lines
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Dyfsunctional.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.