Ohio · United States
Where to stay in Cleveland
Cleveland is a city in Ohio, United States, home to about 373,000 people.
- Nearest airport
- CLE16 km · Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
- Currency
- USDUnited States dollar
- Time zone
- America/New York
- Language
- Carolinian, Chamorro, Hawaiian
About
About Cleveland
Cleveland ( KLEEV-lənd) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, located along the southern shore of Lake Erie. It is across the lake from the Canadian province of Ontario, and is approximately 60 miles (97 kilometers) west of the Ohio–Pennsylvania state line.
Cleveland is named after Moses Cleaveland, a veteran of the American War of Independence and distant relative of U.S. President Grover Cleveland, who surveyed the area and founded the city in 1796. Cleveland is the urban center of Northeast Ohio, with 363,000 people in 2020. It is the center of the 15th largest combined metropolitan area in the United States. From 1890 until 1970, Cleveland was ranked as one of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. Like most U.S. cities, Cleveland began to lose population to suburban areas in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Cleveland
Do
Enjoy a game with the world's best sports fans. Cleveland is home to the second longest span of sold out baseball games (5 consecutive seasons in the late 1990s), the largest American League baseball attendance (72,086 on 8/9/1981) and the birthplace of Monday Night Football (9/21/1970). But given its storied sports past coupled with its weathered but dedicated fan base (ESPN named Cleveland the "Most Tortured Sports City"), terms like The Drive, The Fumble, The Shot, The Move, The Decision, 2 More Outs will ring in the ears of Cleveland sports fans for generations to come.
- Goodtime III
- Lady Caroline
- African American Heritage Trail
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Where to stay
Which part of Cleveland to stay in
The following are districts of the city of Cleveland. For the Cleveland Metropolitan area see Cuyahoga County.
Hotels are mostly located Downtown, with a few additional East Side options around University Circle, and some properties near the airport on the far West Side. The only hostel in the city is in Ohio City on the West Side. Neighboring suburbs also provide numerous lodging choices.
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Where to stay
Hotels in Cleveland
15 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Arcade | 1890 | 0.4 km |
| Hollenden Hotel | 1885 | 0.5 km |
| Hotel Cleveland Renaissance Hotels | 1918 | 0.1 km |
| Alcazar Hotel | 1923 | 8.5 km |
| Crowne Plaza Cleveland at Playhouse Square | 1995 | 1.0 km |
| Tudor Arms Hotel | 1933 | 6.8 km |
| Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Tower | 0.3 km | |
| Hilton Cleveland Downtown | 0.4 km | |
| Hyatt Regency Cleveland At The Arcade | 0.4 km | |
| InterContinental Cleveland | 6.3 km | |
| InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland | 5.8 km | |
| Kimpton Schofield Hotel | 0.7 km | |
| Metropolitan at The 9, Autograph Collection | 0.7 km | |
| The Ritz-Carlton, Cleveland | 0.2 km | |
| The Westin Cleveland Downtown | 0.6 km |
All 15 hotels in Cleveland, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Cleveland
Cleveland has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 28 °C; May is the wettest, with about 101 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Cleveland: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE), about 16 km from the city centre in a straight line; Akron Canton Regional Airport (CAK, 68 km) and Windsor International Airport (YQG, 136 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
Cleveland might be one of the easiest cities in the world to navigate. There are almost no one-way streets, because the city was planned to have "European Avenues" (which resulted in the foresight to make them broad enough for vehicular transportation that couldn't have been imagined in the late 1700s). Traffic is generally not a problem relative to other major U.S. metro areas. Throughout the downtown area, purple signs direct visitors to let you know where you are and what district you are in.
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CLE · Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
CAK · Akron Canton Regional Airport
YQG · Windsor International Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Cleveland
Eat
Cleveland is host to a wide variety of restaurants and is culinarily much more diverse than an outsider might suspect in the Midwest drawing on large enclaves of ethnic neighborhoods and immigration (Ohio City, Slavic Village, Parma, Hough, Little Italy, Chinatown and others).
Drink
There are plenty of bars in Cleveland - most are located Downtown. However, many are closed on Sundays and some have reduced hours or are closed on Mondays.
Stay safe
When driving at night in the city, stay in your car along major urban corridors (like Euclid, Chester and Carnegie Avenues heading east and Detroit and Lorain Avenues heading west). At night, you may want to avoid inner city neighborhoods and the City of East Cleveland in its entirety. Many of the city's so-called "rough" neighborhoods are on the east side. However, tourists in general wouldn't have any reason to visit these neighborhoods, and University Circle on the east side, where all the city's main cultural institutions are, is safe. Eastern inner-ring suburbs such as Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Beachwood and Shaker Heights are all very safe.
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Questions
Cleveland: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Cleveland?
Cleveland has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 28 °C; May is the wettest, with about 101 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Cleveland?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE), about 16 km from the city centre in a straight line; Akron Canton Regional Airport (CAK, 68 km) and Windsor International Airport (YQG, 136 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Cleveland?
United States dollar (USD).
Nearby
Destinations near Cleveland
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.