St. Patrick’s Day 2018

St.Paticks Day is this Saturday. Here are a few stats for this year.

At least $5.9 billion is expected to be spent for St. Patrick's Day this year, and the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2018's Best Cities for St. Patrick's Day Celebrations, along with some cool stats about the holiday.

According to WalletHub's findings, the top 5 best cities to go for St. Patrick's Day are Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo, N.Y., and New York City.

Some other interesting St. Patrick's Day facts include an 819 percent increase in Guinness consumption on St. Patrick's Day compared to the rest of the year. All told, thirteen million pints of Guinness will be consumed worldwide on St. Patrick's Day.

Also, 152.5 percent more beer is sold on the holiday overall.

The current market value of a leprechaun's pot of gold is $1.3 million.

As mentioned earlier, $5.9 billion will be spent collectively on St. Patrick's Day 2018, and that breaks down to $40 per person celebrating.

A few numbers of interest: Eighty-three percent of people celebrating plan to wear green. Forty-five pounds of dye is used to turn the Chicago River Green. The green dye lasts for 5 hours. The first year the river was dyed green was 1962. Finally, the cost of an Uber ride from Boston to Dublin, Ohio, is $1,211 vs. as much as $24,000 for a DUI.