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A balanced read, not one ranking.
About the location
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- Internships
- 1000
- Entry level
- 9000
- Early / mid
- 1000
Get to know Cambridge
A mix of mapped places and local activities to explore—not a popularity ranking.
Life beyond the classroom
A feel for Cambridge.
The seasons, at a glance
Warm summers, freezing winter nights.
Average daily highs & lows · °C · 1991–2020
Monthly breakdown & weather definitions
| Month | High °C | Low °C | Wet days | Snowy days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 2.7° | -4.9° | 11.8 | 6.6 |
| Feb | 3.9° | -4.1° | 10.6 | 6.2 |
| Mar | 7.5° | -0.5° | 11.6 | 4.4 |
| Apr | 13.6° | 4.9° | 11.6 | 0.8 |
| May | 19.2° | 10.2° | 11.8 | 0.0 |
| Jun | 24.6° | 15.4° | 10.9 | 0.0 |
| Jul | 27.8° | 18.9° | 9.4 | 0.0 |
| Aug | 26.9° | 18.4° | 9.0 | 0.0 |
| Sep | 22.8° | 14.6° | 9.0 | 0.0 |
| Oct | 16.7° | 8.6° | 10.5 | 0.2 |
| Nov | 10.9° | 3.3° | 10.3 | 0.6 |
| Dec | 5.7° | -1.6° | 11.9 | 4.2 |
Wet day: at least 0.01 inches (0.254 mm) of precipitation, including melted snow. This is not a rain-only count. Snowy day: at least 0.1 inches (2.54 mm) of new snowfall, not existing snow cover. Annual counts sum monthly average day counts; rare events may round to zero.
Highs and lows are averages of daily maximum and minimum temperatures, not record extremes. These are published 30-year climate normals, not a forecast. Recent years can be warmer or otherwise differ. Season labels summarise June–August highs and December–February lows.
Weather station: BOSTON LOGAN INTL AP, MA US, approximately 9.0 km from Harvard University. Nearby station conditions can differ from campus, particularly with elevation or coastal differences. Retrieved 2026-09-07.
Weather data: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals · U.S. public-domain government data. Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Temperature units converted and monthly day-count normals summed by Univised; no NOAA endorsement implied.
Make the city yours
What’s around town?
A sample of mapped places within 5 km of Harvard University. Browse by your kind of afternoon—or night out.
Live music
4 mapped- Paradise Rock Club
- Brighton Music Hall
- House of Blues Music Hall
1 more mapped places
- Fenway Park
Theatre & performance
46 mapped- Sanders Theatre
- American Repertory Theater
- Loeb Drama Center
43 more mapped places
- Fitzgerald Theater
- Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
- Scullers Jazz Club
- Herter Park Amphitheater
- Major General Casey Amphitheater
- Central Square Theater
- Rockwell
- W97 Theatre
- Boston Playwright's Theatre
- Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre
- Tsai Performance Center
- Wong Auditorium
- Morse Auditorium
- Balch Arena Theater
- Mystic River Watershed
- Wheelock Family Theatre
- Lee & Alma Berk Recital Hall
- Oliver Colvin Recital Hall
- Seully Hall
- Houston Hall
- Zack Box Theater
- Studio 401
- Boston Conservatory Theater
- Charlestown Working Theater
- The Loft
- Berklee Performance Center
- David Friend Recital Hall
- Mosesian Center for the Arts
- John B Hayes Auditorium
- Exeter Street Theatre
- Fenway Center
- Symphony Hall
- Huntington Theatre Company
- Huntington Avenue Theatre
- Jordan Hall
- Burnes Hall
- Pierce Hall
- Keller Room
- Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre
- Williams Hall
- Brown Hall
- Lyric Stage
- Raytheon Amphitheater
Cinema
12 mapped- Brattle Theatre
- Landmark Theatres
- Apple Cinemas
9 more mapped places
- Somerville Theater
- The Majestic 7
- Coolidge Corner Theatre
- AMC Assembly Row 12
- Capitol Theatre
- Mugar Omni Theater
- MassArt Film Society
- AMC Causeway 13
- ArcLight Cinema
Museums & galleries
65 mapped- The Cooper Gallery
- The Collection Of Historical Scientific Instruments
- Fogg Museum
62 more mapped places
- Busch-Reisinger Museum
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Harvard Art Museums
- Harvard Geological and Mineral Museum
- Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
- Semitic Museum
- Cooper-Frost-Austin House
- Nancy and Edward Roberts Gallery
- Sign of the Dove Gallery
- Somerville Historical Museum
- Gallery 263
- Tech Model Railroad Club
- Compton Gallery
- Hart Nautical Gallery
- Out of the Blue Gallery
- Unbound Visual Arts Gallery
- MIT Museum
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
- Remis Sculpture Gallery
- Praise Shadows Art Gallery
- First Corps of Cadets Museum
- Museum of Science
- Griffin Museum at Digital Silver Imaging
- Pucker Gallery
- Vose Galleries LLC
- International Paper Museum
- Childs Gallery
- DTR Modern Galleries
- Rolly-Michaux Galleries
- The Guild of Boston Artists
- Co|So: Copley Society of Art
- Gibson House
- Arden Gallery
- Russell Museum of Medical History and Innovation
- Ether Dome
- Eugene Galleries, Inc.
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- Sloane Merrill Gallery
- New England Historic Genealogical Society
- Pellas Gallery
- Museum of Fine Arts
- Gallery NAGA
- Arts of Asia
- Art of Ancient Greece and Rome
- Galerie d'Orsay
- Grogan & Company
- Newbury Fine Arts
- MassArt Art Museum
- Phillips School
- Warren Anatomical Museum
- Krakow Witkin Gallery
- William Hickling Prescott House
- The West End Museum
- Museum of African American History
- Otis House Museum
- Nichols House Museum
- The Battle of Bunker Hill Museum
- The Sports Museum
- Leica Store and Gallery
- Piano Craft Gallery
Nightlife
14 mapped- Club Passim
- Lizard Lounge
- Samba
11 more mapped places
- Manray
- The Middle East Corner
- Sonia
- The Middle East Downstairs
- The Jungle Community Music Club
- Middlesex Lounge
- Garage Boston
- Crystal Ballroom
- Oliver's
- Storyville
- Wally's Cafe Jazz Club
Stadiums & arenas
6 mapped- Harvard Stadium
- Nickerson Field
- Agganis Arena
3 more mapped places
- Dilboy Memorial Stadium
- TD Garden
- Brighton Field at the Harrington Athletics Village
Parks & green spaces
323 mapped- Dawes Island Park
- Flagstaff Park
- Winthrop Park
320 more mapped places
- Guffey Park
- John F. Kennedy Park
- Joan Lorentz Park
- Riverbend Park
- Longfellow Park
- Corporal Burns Park
- Riverbend Park
- Peterson Park
- Franklin Street Park
- Burden Park
- New Riverside Park
- Maple Avenue Park
- Wilder-Lee Park
- West Conway Park
- East Conway Park
- Perry Park
- Riverside Press Park
- James Cronin Park
- McElroy Park
- Paine Park
- Jackson Gardens
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Park
- Lincoln Park
- Raymond Park
- Sennott Park
- Osgood Park
- Bailey Park
- Dana Park
- Rena Park
- Raymond V. Mellone Park
- Herter Park
- Martha Perry Lowe Park
- Lowell Park
- Lopez Street Park
- Elm-Hampshire Park
- Rothlisberger Park
- McMath Park
- Clement G. Morgan Park
- Squirrel Brand Park
- Jill Brown Rhone Park
- Walnut Street Park
- University Park Common
- Pacific Street Park
- Old Morse Park
- Stone Place Park
- University Park East Walkway
- Larch Road Park
- Allen Street Playground & Garden
- Albion Park
- Market Street Park
- Fulmore Park
- Greene Rose Heritage Park
- Danehy Park
- Prospect Hill Park
- Corbett-McKenna Park
- Somerville Junction Park
- Ken Kelly Park
- Central Hill Memorial Park
- Fort Washington Park
- Kenney Park
- Edward L. Leathers Dog Park
- Kingsley Park
- Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci Park
- Reverend Thomas J. Williams Park
- Seven Hills Park
- Binney Street Park
- Grand Junction Park
- Henry Hanson Park
- Bexley Garden
- Danny Lewin Park
- Alewife Linear Park
- Athletes Park
- Glen Park
- Paul Revere Park
- Hodgkins-Curtin Park
- Gold Star Mother's Park/Gore Park
- Powder House Park
- Filippello Park
- Alewife Linear Park
- William G. Maher Park
- Silva Park
- Point Park
- Symphony Park
- Minot Park
- Foss Park
- Tufts Park
- Chuckie Harris Park
- Timothy J. Toomey, Jr. Park
- Costa Lopez Park
- Centanni Park
- Judge Sumner Z. Kaplan Park
- East Somerville Commitee Action (ESCA) Park
- Columbus Memorial Park
- Coolidge Park
- Monmouth Park
- Grove Street Park
- Binney Street Park
- Grimmons Park
- Charlesgate Park
- Magnolia Park
- Lechmere Canal Park
- Front Park
- Charles Park
- Fidelis Way Park
- Rafferty Park
- Cunningham Park
- Stack Street Park
- Waldo Park
- Arsenal Park
- Brian Honan Park
- Corey Hill Park
- Ramler Park
- Science Park
- Sylvester Baxter Riverfront Park
- Payson Park
- Charlestown Firefighters Memorial Park
- Lederman Park
- Griggs Park
- Torbert Macdonald State Park
- Draw Seven State Park
- Grant Park
- Richard McKinnon State Park
- Squibnocket Park
- Symphony Community Park
- Crosby School Park
- O'Connell Park
- Brooks Park
- Cambridge Reservoir Park
- Royall House Park
- Harry Ellis Dickson Park
- Nashua Street Park
- Forsythe Park
- Peter Looney Park
- Clay Pit Pond Park
- Wilson Park
- Pocket Park
- Evans Way Park
- Linden Park
- John E Murphy Park
- Barry Park
- Galvin Memorial Park
- Lotta Bradburn Schick Park
- North Bank Bridge Park
- Theresa Hynes Park
- Capen Park
- Rogers Park
- Thea and James M. Stoneman Centennial Park
- Boston Public Garden
- Southwest Corridor Park
- Paul Revere Park
- Charlestown Veterans Memorial Park
- City Square Park
- Braddock Park
- Titus Sparrow Park
- Emerson Garden
- Gateway Park
- Southwest Corridor Park
- Frieda Garcia Park
- Rabbi Joseph Shalom Shubow Park
- Gables Rain Garden Park
- Mission Main Park
- Spy Pond Park
- Cummings Park
- Childe Hassam Park
- Clippership Park
- Temple Street Park
- Krystle Campbell Peace Garden
- Isabella Street Park
- Cardinal Cushing Memorial Park
- Ashburton Park
- Hiscock Park
- Kevin W. Fitzgerald Park
- Statler Park
- Magoun Park
- Portal Park
- Southwest Corridor Park
- Prescott Park
- Underwood Park
- Hayes Park
- Nautica Park
- Veterans Memorial Park
- Washington Place Park
- Southwest Corridor Park
- Patrick J. Kelly Daniel M. McGoff Memorial Park
- Brattle Square
- Cambridge Common
- Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
- Burns Playground
- Baker Lawn
- Sacramento Field
- Shady Hill Square
- Wilson Square
- Hoyt Field
- Monagle Plaza
- Taylor Square
- Smith Playground
- Charles River Reservation
- The Grove
- Morse-Kelley Playground
- Concord Square
- Portuguese Plaza
- Quincy Street Open Space
- Hooker Street Playground
- Saint Peters Field
- Nunziato Field
- James F. Collins Square
- Pacific Terrace
- Landsdowne Quadrangle
- Magazine Beach
- Hastings Square
- Donnelly Field
- Lindstrom Field
- Community Path
- Hoyt-Sullivan Playground
- Gannett Playground
- Gilman Square
- Reardon Square
- Briggs Field
- Watertown-Cambridge Greenway
- Somerville Community Path
- Penniman Road Play Area
- Ahern Field
- Buckingham, Browne and Nichols (BB&N) Fields
- Trum Field
- Union Square
- Portsmouth Street Playground
- Rita Hester Green
- Watertown-Cambridge Greenway
- Loughrey Walkway
- Glacken Field
- Jerry's Pond
- Lawton Playground
- Alewife Brook Parkway
- Charles River Esplanade
- Knyvet Square
- Freeman Square
- Mason Square
- Clarendon Avenue Playground
- Florence Playground
- Watertown-Cambridge Greenway
- Amory Woods
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
- Zero New Washington St
- Winthrop Square
- Lieutenant Paul J. Sullivan Playground
- Dwight Square
- Amory Playground
- Hall's Pond Sanctuary
- Little Fresh Pond Dog Beach
- Perkins Playground
- RIdley Green
- Mystic River Reservation
- Watertown-Cambridge Greenway
- Caldwell Street Play Area
- Longwood Mall
- McKinney Playground
- Thorndike Field
- Cambridge Parkway
- The Green
- The Common at CX
- Corey Hill Outlook
- Viaduct Courts
- Commonwealth Ave Mall
- Longwood Playground
- Saint Mark's Square
- Watertown-Cambridge Greenway
- Back Bay Fens
- Essex Square
- Ryan Playground
- Riverway
- Hobart St Play Area
- Edwards Playground
- Belvidere/Dalton Plaza
- Brook Street Playground
- Sitting Grove
- Schraffts Centre Harborwalk
- Doherty Playground
- Euston Path Rock
- Mystic River Reservation
- Mystic River Reservation
- Pierce School Playground
- Minuteman Bikeway
- Linden Square
- Mystic River Reservation
- Copley Square
- Beaconsfield Terraces Historic District
- North Union Playground
- Louisburg Square
- Huntington-Hemenway Mall
- Brookline Avenue Playground
- Thompson Square
- Cook Street Playground
- Gateway Greenspace
- Krentzman Quadrangle
- Boston African American National Historic Site
- John Harvard Mall
- Kilsyth Terrace
- Strathmore Road Historic District
- Cypress Emerson Historic District
- Jean B. Waldstein Playground
- Hardiman Playground
- Monument Square
- Cypress Street Playground
- Winthrop Square
- Harriet Tubman Square
- Carter Playground
- Boylston Street Playground
- Boston Common
- Mystic River Reservation
- Lincoln Square
- Mission Hill Playground
- Oak Square
- Hunnewell Playground
- Hunnewell Woods
- Mystic River Reservation
- Riverside Plaza
- Medford Square
- Douglas Courtyard
- Juniper Street Playground
- Mt. Vernon Street Plaza
About this local snapshot
These are named places in OpenStreetMap, not event listings or a popularity ranking. Examples prioritise named parks and gardens in the green-space category, then distance from Harvard University. Mapping coverage varies: counts do not measure how lively a city is, and an omitted category does not mean there are no venues. Opening status has not been checked for every place; check access and hours before visiting. Snapshot: 2026-09-07.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Filtered and grouped by Univised.
The regional economy · 2024 Census ACS
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area
Metropolitan-area residents, not just Cambridge or the student population.
Largest industries by employment share
Broad employer industries, not roles or job vacancies. Annual survey estimates include commuters working outside the metro.
Explore industries & history →Applying here
Requirements & deadlines
2027 first-year entry planning from the current published annual schedule. Confirm the year in your portal; transfer dates differ.
Submit Common App, Harvard short answers, school records, two teacher recommendations and required testing. Alternative exams are accepted only in specified exceptional access circumstances.
Reviewed 2026-09-07. Official admissions guidance ↗
Rankings
Reputation & career strength.
Univised career benchmarks
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 1.00× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 0.96×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.089. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 0.99× to 1.00×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 1.28× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 1.31×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.896. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.25× to 1.29×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 2.34× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 4.22×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.415. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.84× to 3.06×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 1.50× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 2.73×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.289. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 1.29× to 1.87×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 0.93× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 0.65×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.188. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 0.87× to 0.96×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
How estimated
Evidence-adjusted career presence. The 0.85× headline is a modelled rating, not an observed employment rate.
Raw observed/expected ratio: 0.27×. The same continuous evidence adjustment applies to every school: 1 + evidence weight × (raw ratio − 1). Evidence weight: 0.210. Small expected cohorts and disagreement between cohort definitions reduce this weight. Traditional reputation does not change a direct rating.
With alternative stability settings, this rating ranges from 0.71× to 0.91×. This is a model-sensitivity check, not a confidence interval or range of hiring odds.
Position ranges group the model's ordering for readability; they are not statistical confidence intervals. Traditional reputation is a proxy, not evidence of placement in this industry or programme availability.
Career ratings adjust for evidence strength. Compatible-school estimates are used only where supported; a neutral fallback means unknown, not measured average performance. These are not hiring odds or degree-quality measurements.
Creative paths
Where creative careers have started.
Documented education links for notable people—not graduation counts or hiring odds. This initial Wikidata snapshot samples up to 500 links per field.
Harvard University
33 distinct people in this snapshot
- James Thiérrée
- Arthur Shaw
- Charmaine CraigEmployer history: University of California, Riverside
- Nelida Nassar
- Frank Mouris
- Cristoforo Magliozzi
- Christina E. CrawfordEmployer history: Emory University
- Anton TroianovskiEmployer history: The New York Times
- Samuel P. Jacobs
- Annie Julia Wyman
- Kirén Miret
- Ovid Williams Pierce, Jr.Employer history: East Carolina University, Tulane University
- Charles Sumner
- Charles Francis Adams Jr.Employer history: Harvard University, Union Pacific Corporation
- Charmaine CraigEmployer history: University of California, Riverside
University context
A little more perspective.
Campus community
Faith & belonging
No reported institutional religious affiliation
Institutional affiliation does not describe students’ individual beliefs. A verified campus-wide religious breakdown is not available in this dataset.
Campus experience
Campus ratings and verifiable strengths.
Industry strengths
Observed employment evidence where supported; otherwise ranking-informed or comparable-school estimates. These school-level ratings do not verify programme availability or hiring probability.
Sports snapshot
Degrees
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