Charlottesville

About

Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. The former capital of Virginia, it is named after Queen Charlotte. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 46,553. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the City of Charlottesville with Albemarle County for statistical purposes, bringing its population to approximately 160,000. Charlottesville is the heart of the Charlottesville metropolitan area, which includes Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, and Nelson counties.

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Why visit

Visit Charlottesville for literature, bookshops, and universities. Use Charlottesville to connect cultural institutions with streets, food, public space, and nearby landscape rather than treating each stop separately. A good itinerary should stay selective. A good route in Charlottesville begins with one serious site and adds smaller stops only when they clarify the same area. For Charlottesville, this usually reveals more than adding one more distant sight. If Charlottesville has useful day trips or nearby landscape, use them to widen the context rather than to overload the schedule.

When to avoid

Do not visit Charlottesville expecting every useful stop to be close together or easy to improvise. In Charlottesville, a good plan starts with the constraints, not with the number of sights. A day in Charlottesville should account for distance, heat, parking, and transit before adding more stops. Use Charlottesville with honest transport planning rather than assuming every link will be easy.

The next week in Charlottesville

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).

Year-round climate

Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).

Airports near Charlottesville

2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Charlottesville Albemarle Airport (CHO) at 12 km.

Getting around Charlottesville

Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.

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.