# What is "Sweater weather"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 27, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-sweater-weather/610876 "2012-01-27T16:59:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Old\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/5daacb/32.png) [@Old\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Goat)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-sweater-weather/610876/21 "2012-01-31T00:01:20Z")
Summer in Seattle ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-sweater-weather/610876/22 "2012-01-31T00:43:18Z")
Chilly enough that you will want more than a shirt to be outside for any length of time, but not cold enough that you will need an actual jacket. For me, that’d be around 55-65 degrees F. The forecaster probably made things more confusing than he needed to by mentioning both “sweater weather” and “jacket weather” on the same day. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-sweater-weather/610876/23 "2012-01-31T19:47:52Z")
[QUOTE=kenobi 65] Chilly enough that you will want more than a shirt to be outside for any length of time, but not cold enough that you will need an actual jacket. For me, that’d be around 55-65 degrees F. [/QUOTE] See, to _me,_ that’s the definition of what a jacket is for. If it’s cold, then I wear a _coat_. A jacket is light weight, a coat is heavier. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-sweater-weather/610876.md?page=1)