National Coffee Day: Atlanta is a Hot City for Joe

National Coffee Day is Thursday, and the personal-finance website WalletHub rolled out its 2016's Best Cities for Coffee Lovers showing Atlanta coming as the nation's 14th best city for coffee lovers.

To determine the best cities for partaking in America’s coffee culture, WalletHub’s number crunchers compared the 100 largest cities across 12 key metrics, ranging from “number of coffee shops, coffee houses and cafés per capita” to “average price of a coffee pack.”

According to a Gallup poll, nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults today drink coffee, and each averages 2.7 cups of joe per day. Some estimates even place Americans in the lead of global coffee consumption, at 146 billions cups per year, earning us the status as the most caffeinated — and wired — humans on the planet.

In Atlanta, coffee is a major presence, with new openings and flavors being unveiled all the time. Octane Coffee opened a new Midtown location, and the community also saw a new Revelator Coffee open earlier this year.

Decatur-area caffeine fiends have a new place to get their coffee fix when The Corner Cup opened in May. And Smyrna’s Rev Coffee was recently voted best in Georgia from Foursquare.

Here are the nation's top 10 cities for coffee lovers:

1. Portland, OR
2. Seattle, WA
3. Minneapolis, MN
4. Pittsburgh, PA
5. Orlando, FL
6. San Francisco, CA
7. New Orleans, LA
8. Madison, WI
9. Cincinnati, OH
10. Scottsdale, AZ

Other highlights of the survey:

• Louisville, KY, average price for a cappuccino, $2.83, which is 1.7 times lower than in Honolulu, the city with the highest, $4.69.
• Hialeah, FL, has the lowest average price per pack of coffee, $3.47, which is 2.2 times lower than in Honolulu, the city with the highest, $7.56.
• Portland, OR., has the most coffee shops, coffeehouses and cafés per 100,000 residents, 101.71, which is 32.5 times higher than in Laredo, Texas, the city with the fewest, 3.13.
• Orlando, Fla., has the most donut shops per 100,000 residents, 18.46, which is 18 times higher than in Anchorage, Alaska, the city with the fewest, 1.00.

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