St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are lively and green-tinted affairs filled with music, dancing, food, and signature beverages like Guinness stout and Irish coffee. The phrase “Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day” has a lot of truth to it, as people from all walks of life enjoy having a little fun each year on March 17. But that fun might be amped up a little in cities with large populations of people who trace their ancestry to the Emerald Isle and locales where staples of life in Ireland are particularly accessible.

A local Irish pub tends to be a fun place to spend St. Patrick’s Day regardless of where the establishment is located, but in 2023 LawnStarter examined a wide range of variables in an effort to identify the most Irish cities in the United States. After gathering publicly available data that ranged from a city’s Irish population to its number of Irish dance schools to the amount of Irish pubs open within city limits, the team at LawnStarter came up with this list of the “Most Irish” cities in the U.S. The list is unofficial and intended to entertain as much as inform, but those looking to spend St. Patrick’s Day in a locale with a notably Irish feel can consider a visit to any of these cities: New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Denver, CO; San Diego, CA; Seattle, WA; Omaha, NE.

Celebrants looking for cities where St. Patrick’s Day is a particularly big deal can consider a visit to these locales that LawnStarter identified as having the most St. Patrick’s Day events: Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Denver, CO; New York, NY; San Diego, CA.

If it’s Irish dance performances you’re looking for, consider these cities, which LawnStarter found are home to more schools of Irish dance than other locales in the U.S.: New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL; Orlando, FL (tie) with San Diego, CA and San Francisco, CA.

There’s much fun to be had on St. Patrick’s Day. And spending the day in certain locales may be even more amusing and enjoyable.