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Philadelphia climate

Icy cold winters and extremely humid summers make spring and fall the best time to take flights to Philadelphia. If you can handle the crowds, Philadelphia goes wild every 4th of July (Independence Day) with fireworks and city-wide celebrations.

Getting around Philadelphia

A quick and easy way to get between your downtown hotel and the city centre is the Phlash, Philadelphia’s gas-engine trolley. It’s a convenient way to get to Independence Visitor Centre, Penn’s Landing and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The trolley runs every day and can be boarded every 12 minutes at very affordable rates. It also provides direct connections to rail lines.

What is good to know if travelling to Philadelphia?

• National Park Service rangers invite you to the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site which commemorates Poe’s mysterious death on October 7, 1849. A series of special programs leading up to Halloween explore the famous author’s themes of madness, revenge, premature burial and death.
• Wireless Philadelphia™ provides free high-speed public Internet access for the residents, visitors, and businesses of Philadelphia. You can use your wireless/Wi-Fi enabled laptop or PDA to connect to the broadband connection and then check your e-mail, surf the web, log on to your corporate network using a VPN connection, instant message friends and colleagues, play online games, or make a free Voice-over IP phone call.
• Located across from the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park, the Independence Visitor Center provides a free orientation to the culture, history, shopping and dining throughout the Greater Philadelphia region.
• Plan a visit to the National Constitution Center where you can explore the Interactive Constitution, a clause-by-clause explanation of the Constitution, providing easy access to basic constitutional facts and interpretation, and searchable by key words and Supreme Court cases.
• Be sure to visit the Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX) which is the oldest stock exchange in the United States. The Exchange currently handles trades for approximately 2000 stocks, 1700 equity options, 25 index options, and a number of currency options.
• Celebrating more than 100 years of Gilbert and Sullivan and located in Philadelphia, the Savoy Company is the oldest amateur theater company in the world dedicated solely to the production of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.