While Punxsutawney Phil gets much of the national Groundhog Day spotlight, many of his weather-forecasting animal counterparts have proven much more accurate with their predictions.
Though Phil hails from Pennsylvania, other popular groundhog forecasters include Buckeye Chuck in Ohio, General Beauregard Lee in Georgia and Staten Island Chuck in New York, among dozens of others.
Across the U.S. and Canada, where Groundhog Day is primarily celebrated, there are 88 weather-forecasting groundhogs in total, according to groundhog-day.com, which bills itself as the leading data source for the holiday that falls on Feb. 2.
Some of those include "alternative" groundhogs, which the site says includes other species, taxidermized groundhogs, plush stuffed animals or people in costume.
In 2025, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ranked the accuracy of some of these groundhogs, and the results showed many outranked Punxsutawney Phil.
