Table of annual heating and cooling degree days for major cities?

Question

I'd like to find a table of heating degree days and cooling degree days listed by major city in the US, but also globally, for an average year. I've searched the internet but could not find the information in a concise form.

Answer 1

The following link will take you to a web page where you get a document (ASCII or .pdf) which includes monthly heating and cooling degree days (and a lot of other information) for various cities in each state.  Unfortunately it is separated state-by-state.

http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/climate...

Alternatively, you can go to http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysi...

and find a table with ACTUAL degree days and departures from normal for various cities in the US as a whole.  The average is not called out in the table, but can easily be calculated from the measured and departure from normal.

I don't know what to tell you for the rest of the world, I suspect the information won't be so easy to find.

Edit: Data is not always in the format we would like it--load it into Excel do the processing you need on it--I don't think it would take that long.