MIAMI – The next time you ruin a nice shirt with perspiration while walking outside in Miami, know that it is all for a good cause.

Without your sacrifice, Miami would not have achieved the heights it has now reached.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami is the sweatiest city in the South, and the fourth sweatiest in the entire country.

USA Today reports the study puts Miami ahead of locations like Phoenix and parts of California which recently hit temps above 110 degrees.

In fact, New York, Washington, DC and Chicago, all northern cities, claimed the top 3 spots on the list.

"It's not always the highest temperatures that get you," Radley Horton, a climate scientist at Columbia University, told the newspaper. "Sometimes, it's the combination of high temperatures and humidity."

Other factors, like stress, also figure into the rankings as high-powered jobs also make you sweat.

TOP 10 SWEATIEST CITIES IN US

New York City

Washington, DC

Chicago

MIAMI

Boston

Philadelphia

Atlanta

Tampa

Houston

New Orleans