Punxsutawney Phil (/ ˌ p ʌ ŋ k s ə ˈ t ɔː n i /) is a groundhog residing in Young Township near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, United States, who is the central figure in Punxsutawney's annual Groundhog Day celebration.

Home of Punxsutawney Phil in the Weather Capital of the World. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club invites to to celebrate Groundhog Day!

5 days ago · Phil has predicted a longer winter far more often than an early spring, and one effort to track his accuracy concluded he was right less than half the time. What six more weeks of winter means is subjective. Tom Dunkel, president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, says there are two types of people who make the trek to Gobbler’s Knob: the faithful seeking to …

5 days ago · Punxsutawney Phil celebrating first Groundhog Day as a father 02:40. PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (KDKA) — On Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney Phil comes out of his stump and predicts whether there will be an ...

5 days ago · PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — The crowd started piling into Gobbler's Knob at 3 a.m. on Sunday, happy to wait more than four hours in freezing cold to see the celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerge ...

Jan 31, 2025 · Phil is reportedly 139 years old and has lived in Punxsutawney since the first Grover Cleveland administration, according to KDKA News and NPR. His immortality stems from a secret elixir of...

5 days ago · Phil has seen his shadow and has communicated his forecast to Tom Dunkel, president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. Phil has spoken to Dunkel in a language described as “Groundhog-ese ...

5 days ago · Punxsutawney Phil is a world-famous groundhog who has been predicting the weather since 1887 in “Groundhogese,” according to Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. According to the club, Punxsutawney ...

Jan 31, 2025 · That's especially true for a small town in Pennsylvania, where celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil delivers his annual weather prediction on Feb. 2 to thousands of people in person, and...

6 days ago · Punxsutawney's Groundhog Day was steadily gaining popularity before the eponymous film came out in 1993, Dereume says. In the movie, Bill Murray, playing TV weatherman Phil to Andie MacDowell's producer Rita, took audiences through a Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney that was stuck on repeat.