San Diego should rank highly on this list.
Were you comfortable walking around with a t-shirt around December?
Cities with Nice Weather
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#62I always love to see data analysis on tolerable weather. I've done a lot of research on weather in the US and its a perpetually challenging problem. There are a small list of cities where its consistently nice (Solely in california and miami), and a larger list of cities that are have 4 nice seasons. But the data will never tell you the full story - Denver doesn't rank incredibly well in the data but the winters are…
>Denver doesn't rank incredibly well in the data but the winters are mild and the summers surprisingly hot because its always sunny and closer to the sun.
Difference in distance to the sun is completely negligible. Maybe you’re thinking of UV index?
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#63I did a similar study many years ago then actually moved to the city. It was wonderful, the climate was perfect for me. Moderate all year, low humidity, low wind and rain.
Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico was the answer for me. I will move back there when the kids are older.
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#64I grew up in Toronto and lived in Oakland for the past 6 years. Other than some smokey summers weather is near perfect. Very mild "winters", beautiful and sunny summers (much less fog than the coast or Berkeley) with only a few days >30C. Low humidity most of the year. I'm in Carson City now and its colder/hotter, still no humidity.
I am looking for someone to do a data crunch like this and see Oakland emerge as a big winner
I was born an raised in Oakland. Live in the East Bay. Oakland has amazing weather. There are social challenges it faces now that give it substantially reduced marks.
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#65If your methodology for identifying "cities with nice weather" returns Reykjavik in its top ten, either your sample only includes places with terrible weather, or your methodology is completely whacked.
Reykjavik is a wonderful little city, but it's cold, extremely windy, and often very miserable.
The place with the most pleasant weather I've ever experienced is probably the area around the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (at least, most of the time - they've had an extraordinary run of flooding rains, recently). 70 degree Fahrenheit maximums in the winter, 82 in the summer, warm-water beaches, sea breezes to take the edge off the humidity - and there's mountains next door you can recreate in during summer to take the edge off. What more could you possibly want, except possibly snow if you're one of those weirdos who likes the stuff?
A more appropriate methodology would take into account wet bulb temperatures, rainfall amounts, hours of sunshine, and wind (aside from its effect on wet bulb temperature a howling gale is unpleasant in its own right).
Still, given the poster's starting point was Toronto...well...
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#67I did a similar study many years ago then actually moved to the city. It was wonderful, the climate was perfect for me. Moderate all year, low humidity, low wind and rain. Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico was the answer for me. I will move back there when the kids are older.
I spent a month down there once. Definitely very nice! I found the food wasn't that great though, unfortunately.
What makes you want to live there?
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#68> We’ll ignore any other weather characteristics like humidity, rain, wind, diurnal temperature difference, etc.
If the author ends up moving to Edinburgh based on this, we can count on seeing a follow up analysis that doesn’t ignore rain.
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#69Great piece but something isn't right. Scotland is notoriously crap weather, cold and wet most the time.
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#70> We’ll ignore any other weather characteristics like humidity, rain, wind, diurnal temperature difference, etc. I chuckled at this. Ignoring factors like humidity, rain, wind, and number of sunny days gives you a very distorted vision of the weather in a given place.
Yeah, not surprising to see Dublin surface in a good weather list built off temperatures alone, and yet the weather is piss poor for 49/52 weeks a year.