Great site, the UI/design isn't the best though. Improving that will make a huge difference. One of the first things I would do is to make Fahrenheit/Celcius a sitewide setting, like on WeatherSpark.com
Show HN: The best time to visit any city
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#62I would love a feature of this where it supports ranges of weeks or for the whole year. I want to use it to find the best place to live based on my preference of yearly weather!
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#63Something fishy is going on here:
https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-cuba/
But really great idea!
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#64A tiny bit of feedback...
> June – August is slow/unreported season for tourism in Edinburgh, so lodging and other accommodations may cost as much as usual.
This is... odd. In August, Edinburgh has the legendary (Fringe) Festival, a month in which the cities population quadruples, making it easily the most intense month of the year for tourism.
Maybe the dataset requires some manual tweaking?
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#65A tiny bit of feedback... > June – August is slow/unreported season for tourism in Edinburgh, so lodging and other accommodations may cost as much as usual. This is... odd. In August, Edinburgh has the legendary (Fringe) Festival, a month in which the cities population quadruples, making it easily the most intense month of the year for tourism. Maybe the dataset requires some manual tweaking?
Yeah, this is exactly my point. Knowing what kinds of groups are traveling to a certain area and when would be largely influential.
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#66"The best times to visit Ensenada for ideal weather are
January 1st to December 30th"
nice, all year
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#67Recommendation: Travel for snow related trips (snowboarding/skiing) would largely depend on average snowpack on a mountain at that time of year, which is directly related to the amount of snowfall in that location as well as the temperature (does it get cold enough for artificial snow making). Build the right tool for planning snow trips and it should be easy to monetize.
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#68This 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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Re: Show HN: The best time to visit any city
#69This 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.…
You made my point better than me. Ppl go to Germany for Oktoberfest, too Vermont for foliage, to Utah for skiing - additionally, these could be reasons to not go to those places at those times.
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#70I think recos like this need the local input more than anything else, ex: see a ton of the comments below pointing out issues.
Good start though.