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Newark climate

Summer temperatures are in the high 20s (Celsius). In September and October the temperatures drop to the 20s and teens. Winter is mild with temperatures about zero and in the single digits, although it can go down into the minus figures. Spring starts in March with temperatures reaching ten.

Getting around Newark

Once you’re in town, you can get around by public transport. But there are plenty of parking lots available downtown.

What is good to know if travelling to Newark?

• Newark’s neoclassical and art deco Penn Station (not to be confused with New York City’s Penn Station) is in the Ironbound District, a vibrant Portuguese community, and its Ferry Street is lined with excellent restaurants, pastry shops, and music.
• To see works by local artists, the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art showcases work by established and emerging African American artists. Artists of all disciplines perform, exhibit their work, and interact with visitors at the Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Centre. City Without Walls offers career development opportunities to new and emerging artists, showcasing the work of more than 200 new artists each year in on-site, off-site, and travelling exhibitions.
• The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra performs a full and varied program for diverse audiences, serves the community by performing classical music throughout the state, and offers a number of programmes to foster music education for all ages.
• For history buffs, The New Jersey Historical Society, based in Newark, is the oldest cultural institution in the state with exhibitions, publications, archives, and programs of the political, social, economic, and cultural history of New Jersey.
• The New Jersey Performing Arts Centre (NJPAC) was the last great performing-arts centre opened in the 20th century. The stages of the two performance halls have been graced by renowned artists, orchestras, and dance and theatre troupes.
• The Newark Museum has 80 galleries, a planetarium, a sculpture garden, a mini zoo, and one of largest and most varied Tibetan collections in the US. One wing of the museum is the luxurious Victorian mansion that was the home of Jeannette and John Holme Ballantine of the Newark beer-brewing family.