Hoppy, Hoppy: Atlanta is 6th Best City for Easter Celebration

With Easter Sunday arriving in less than a week and roughly 80 percent of all Americans expected to observe the holiday in some way, the personal finance website WalletHub took a close look at 2016's Best & Worst Cities for Easter Celebrations.

Atlanta came in as the sixth best city to celebrate the observance.

To find out which cities promise the most egg-citing time on March 27, WalletHub’s number crunchers compared the 100 largest cities across 13 key metrics, ranging from “number of Easter egg-hunt events per capita” to “percentage of Christian population” to “Easter weather forecast.”

Here's how Atlanta fared:

Celebrating Easter in Atlanta (1=Best, 50=Avg.):

• 7th – number of churches per capita
• 50th – percentage of Christian population
• 3rd – number of brunch restaurants per capita
• 18th – number of candy stores per capita
• 23rd – number of chocolate shops per capita
• 5th – number of flower and gift shops per capita
• 39th – Easter egg hunt events per capita
• 32nd – Easter weather forecast
• 19th – average price of eggs

Pittsburgh, PA, was rated the No. 1 city for Easter celebrations, while Hialeah, FL, came in last.

Here's a look at the overall top 10:

1. Pittsburgh, PA
2. St. Louis, MO
3. Orlando, FL
4. Cincinnati, OH
5. Birmingham, AL
6. Atlanta, GA
7. Buffalo, NY
8. Washington, DC
9. Honolulu, HI
10. Cleveland, OH

Photo by Louis Lu via flickr creative commons