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Danbury is located in southwestern Connecticut in Fairfield County, 25 miles northwest of Bridgeport, in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. The city is situated on low-lying land just south of Lake Candlewood, the largest manmade lake in the state, and east of the Housatonic River. The surrounding terrain consists of rolling hills and not-very-tall mountains to the west and northwest (the western highland). Danbury's is a four-season climate; the extremes of temperature experienced throughout New England are somewhat tempered there by proximity to hills, but winters can be very cold.
| 44.3 square miles (2000) | |
| ranges from 378 feet to 1,050 feet | |
| January, 26.5° F; July, 72.5° F; annual average, 49.7° F | |
| 25.8 inches of rain; 26 inches of snow |
