Time to visit Australia is all year long, but what I hear the best is November or February.
Show HN: The best time to visit any city
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#42This is super interesting idea and something I'd reference a lot. The big question I have is what are your factors for deciding the best time to visit? I'd argue setting up the context is really important because weather is a major factor but it isn't the only one. There are times of year that have cultural significance as well as annual events, etc. I like the safety advisory aspect and the population of travelers.…
Do you think NZ should be bucketed under Asia instead?
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#43This is cool, where do you get the data? I see its from NOAA, but what kind of data files do you get from them?
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#44This is very cool. Long shot but any chance you can blog about the algorithm used? Or open source the same?
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#45I like this idea a lot, but there is also on thing to consider, Crowds. The best weather also draws the biggest crowds. This drives up food and hotel prices. If you could somehow factor in the crowds and peak season, you could have a really useful tool.
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#46Immediately after pageload (without interaction), I get the following on Chrome 64 bit (60.0.3112) on Ubuntu 16.10:
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Re: Show HN: The best time to visit any city
#47Hey, this is really useful! I'll bookmark it and probably use it.
A few bugs/glitches, though:
- The Celsius temperature graph for Barcelona ( https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-barcel... ) doesn't show temperatures above 25ºC, so every temperature above that gets cropped to 25. The scale should probably be adapted to the data.
- "The busiest month for tourism in Barcelona, Spain is May, followed by March and March." March and March?
- Maybe this is a problem with your dataset and not the app, but just in case, check the snow graph/data for A Coruña: https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-a-coru... - 108 cm of snow in April? I can guarantee the real average is close to zero :)
- Also in little known tourist destinations (e.g. A Coruña, from the last link) tourism in all seasons is reported as "slow or unreported". Which is true, of course (in the best month in A Coruña you will see much fewer tourists than in a really bad month in Barcelona). But maybe relative data (tourism related to the average in that city) could make sense?
Keep up the good work!
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#48Maybe we can partner up :). I made http://www.averageweather.io for a very similar reason.
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#49This is super interesting idea and something I'd reference a lot. The big question I have is what are your factors for deciding the best time to visit? I'd argue setting up the context is really important because weather is a major factor but it isn't the only one. There are times of year that have cultural significance as well as annual events, etc. I like the safety advisory aspect and the population of travelers.…
"As of 6/22/2017 there are travel warnings for the United Kingdom; exercise a high degree of caution."
I thought this was an error at first, but the .ca travel advice is indeed to be extra careful visiting the UK.
Spain, meanwhile: "Exercise normal security precautions".
Huh.
I guess it's only as good as the data sources :)
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#50I love your weather summaries. Your formula nails it with this one: https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-san-di... Most weather summaries seem to miss that early/mid-September is significantly hotter than the traditionally hot months of July and August for most locations. https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-louisv... > When can you find snow in Louisville? Weather stations report a…
However, there does seem to be a mistake in the precipitation section:
"If dry weather is what you’re after, the months with the lowest chance of precipitation in San Diego are December, February, and then January."