Halloween is celebrated throughout the U.S., but some states are better tailored to spooky season than others. If you’re willing to travel leading up to October 31, check out the best cities for Halloween fanatics.
To make the map below, StorageCafe looked at the “Halloween fun and thrill potential” of the 35 biggest metro areas in the U.S. The self-storage search platform measured each place’s enthusiasm for the holiday by analyzing Google searches for 6700 general Halloween-related keywords (e.g. halloween costumes, halloween decorations, etc.) and nearly 1400 keywords about Halloween-related activities (like pumpkin patches, haunted houses, and more).
Consumer access to candy, percentage of households with minors, and the number of graveyards and historical sites per capita were also taken into consideration. The search data comes from October 2023 through September 2024.
The company found that midwestern states dominate when it comes to Halloween, taking seven spots on the list. Ohio boasts two cities in the top 10, whereas other states claim one at most…