NEW ORLEANS — NOLA Chill, a cryotherapy and recovery studio at 6045 Magazine Street, has published the New Orleans Heat & Recovery Index, a free, citable dataset tracking how many days per year the city’s feels-like temperature reaches 90, 95, 100, and 105 degrees Fahrenheit, covering every year from 2016 through 2026.
Compiled from the Open-Meteo ERA5 weather archive and updated live, the Index shows that July in New Orleans averages 30.2 days at or above a 90-degree feels-like temperature, that 2023 was the decade’s most extreme year with 36 days at or above 105 degrees, and that 2026 is running ahead of the decade norm. The full methodology is published on the page, and the dataset is released under a Creative Commons license so journalists, researchers, race organizers, and residents can cite it freely. A free embeddable badge showing the current New Orleans feels-like temperature is also available.
The Index is part of a larger open-data effort by the studio, which also published the US South Cryotherapy Price Index, with 38 verified studio prices across seven states, and an Evidence Library documenting what peer-reviewed research does and does not show about its own services.
“Nobody had a real answer for how many days a year New Orleans feels like 90 degrees or hotter, so we counted them,” said Walt Marcus, owner of NOLA Chill. “Extreme temperatures are our whole business. The city brings the heat and our studio brings the cold, so it made sense that we’d be the ones to publish the data.”
The Index is available at nolachill.com/new-orleans-heat-recovery-index. NOLA Chill offers whole body cryotherapy, infrared sauna, compression therapy, and other recovery services seven days a week. Contact: info@nolachill.com, (504) 381-4207.