WeatherSpark is my favorite platform for this question. Lots of data and look-a-like places. Highly recommended. https://www.weatherspark.com/
WeatherSpark is great, probably my favorite weather website.
Where Is the World’s Best Weather? (2020)
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#42San Diego and some of Tijuana are just about unbeatable IMO. Any other weather that isn't perfectly sunny is only a short drive away if you so feel the need... the only thing I've ever missed from the MidWest is a few good thunderstorms a year, but even those don't seem to happen as much as it at least seemed to when I was much younger.
San Diego is fine if you can live near the water, but go inland where people can afford to live and it's basically desert.
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#43Best optimization of weather conditions has to be seasonal. Seattle and Portland may be horrible 8 months out of the year but the summer months are quite perfect. What I want to know are which cities are great seasonal cities in which I could potentially buy a condo for the high seasons, and then leave in the non-high seasons for a potential rental at a still competitive price. For example: SF sucks in the summer, bu…
The excessive summer sun is actually a bug not a feature, especially if you factor in the diminished air quality with increased forest fires. Last summer everybody I know chaired when the rains finally came and cleared the air from all the particulates.
Actually IMO the PNW would have a pretty sweet overall weather if only it would rain just a little more in the summer (say once a week / every two weeks).
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#44It's really important to keep in mind that climate can change dramatically in only short distances. From last week, at the same time it was 100F in Sacramento, CA, it was 60F in Inverness, CA. Same latitude, same elevation. The two are about 100 miles apart, a short distance when searching the globe.
I cite Inverness, CA because it has the best weather for my tastes: 20F annual temperature range with average high just under 70F. Always breezy out of the West, with clean ocean air coming off the Pacific. 257 days of sun, 42 inches of rain, less than 1% 'muggy' humidity.
Most places within 10 miles of the Northern California Pacific coast have these attributes.
https://weatherspark.com/y/609/Average-Weather-in-Inverness-...
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#45Most of European Coastal Mediterranean, (Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Albania, southern part of Croatia), including Portugal, San Diego, and anything close to the ocean in California (as long as it is not in the fog belt like San Francisco), South Africa, and perhaps some parts of Australia and Latin America. Basically, anywhere where it is sunny 'Mild Mediterranean' weather, that it is not too hot (North Africa is…
Folks need to appreciate lush vibrant green vegetation where frequent rain is encouraged ... perhaps motivated by lifelong hiking every few days ... so for me Mediterranean climate is way too dry and barren
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#46Most of European Coastal Mediterranean, (Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Albania, southern part of Croatia), including Portugal, San Diego, and anything close to the ocean in California (as long as it is not in the fog belt like San Francisco), South Africa, and perhaps some parts of Australia and Latin America. Basically, anywhere where it is sunny 'Mild Mediterranean' weather, that it is not too hot (North Africa is…
> Basically, anywhere where it is sunny 'Mild Mediterranean' weather, that it is not too hot (North Africa is too hot for my taste).
I wouldn't object to living in that climate type (Csa, Csb), but I'd be worried about rainfall:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate
Personally I'd lean more towards Oceanic:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_climate
Still mild, with some seasonality. I do understand why some people wouldn't want all the cloudiness.
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#47I saw a documentary on Japanese TV on this topic. Or, actually, it might have been this reality TV show: https://www.asahi.co.jp/konnatokoroni/ whose concept is that Japanese celebrities travel to various places in the world, often remote, to pay a surprise visit to some Japanese person living there. Anyway, in this particular episode, a certain gentleman was visited who lives in some high altitude mountainous locati…
Given the variety of climates in Japan itself quite a few types could be experienced domestically:
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#48I saw a documentary on Japanese TV on this topic. Or, actually, it might have been this reality TV show: https://www.asahi.co.jp/konnatokoroni/ whose concept is that Japanese celebrities travel to various places in the world, often remote, to pay a surprise visit to some Japanese person living there. Anyway, in this particular episode, a certain gentleman was visited who lives in some high altitude mountainous locati…
The vast majority of tropical Mexico & Central America’s cities seem to be settled in this manner as well, it’s lovely.
I wonder if it’s a lack of rivers, islands, and ports that led to this vs Southeast Asia’s cities mostly being at sea level. Although Colombia has rivers & ports, and still is mostly settled in the mountains. Odd.
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#49Most of European Coastal Mediterranean, (Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Albania, southern part of Croatia), including Portugal, San Diego, and anything close to the ocean in California (as long as it is not in the fog belt like San Francisco), South Africa, and perhaps some parts of Australia and Latin America. Basically, anywhere where it is sunny 'Mild Mediterranean' weather, that it is not too hot (North Africa is…
Folks need to appreciate lush vibrant green vegetation where frequent rain is encouraged ... perhaps motivated by lifelong hiking every few days ... so for me Mediterranean climate is way too dry and barren
Wallace Stegner:
"Dutton describes a process of westernization of the perceptions that has had to happen before the West is beautiful to us. You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time."
Much longer and more explanatory quote here:
https://bensonian.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/you-have-to-get-o...
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For example: SF sucks in the summer, but maybe the tourists don't know that. Actual SF, or surrounding areas? I would think SF is fairly nice in the summer with the ocean breeze. Sonoma county gets pretty warm in the summer as well, but SF proper always felt cooler to me. I can imagine San Jose being just as bad or worse though.
You do have the probably apocryphal Mark Twain "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." And you can really get the cold, grey city vibe. But, honestly for the most part, it's hard to find a lot of fault (for me) in SF climate most of the year. And I've spent a lot of time there even if I've never lived there. ADDED: And I wouldn't think most people would think anything in NoCal generally (or m…
> I wouldn't think most people would think anything in NoCal generally (or most of CA even more generally) "sucked" in the summer
Eh, week or longer periods of temperatures in the high 90's and low 100's when you're not at the coast isn't always pleasant, I could see how some people think it sucks, depending on how much you're required to be outside. It gets hotter the farther north and more inland you go for a while (even if you don't have to go inland much).
In the end a lot is just what you're used to, I think.