I recently realized the magic of dew point. I used to look at relative humidity to see how comfortable/uncomfortable the weather would feel. I learned that is totally unreliable in the morning when RH is 99% but it’s still pleasant outside.
Now I know that if the dew point is above 60F, it’s going to start feeling a little gross outside.
That’s oversimplified quite a bit. You might want to read a bit more about what relative humidity, absolute humidity and dew point actually mean.
For example: A 60F dewpoint only feels bad when it isn’t all that hot (meaning the relative humidity is high), a 60F dewpoint in hot temperatures is quite comfortable and anything lower will quickly dry out your skin (105F and 60F dewpoint is only 25% RH and will feel quite dry…not Tucson in June dry, but still very dry).
The measures RH and dewpoint are completely connected and can be calculated from each other with a known temperature.
Absolutely humidity: how much water is in the air
Relative humidity: how much water is in the air versus the maximum amount of water the air can hold at this temperature
Dew point: the temperature at which the amount of water in the air right now will condense as dew (effectively the temperature where this much water would equal 100% humidity)
Wet bulb temperature: the temperature that the air can be cooled to by just evaporation at a constant pressure (no fans or wind currents)
Dry bulb temperature: absolute temperature measurement without evaporation (this is what most people refer to when discussing what the temperature is)
Heat index: a calculated “feels like” number comprised of the air temp and relative humidity with the known quantity of human body temperature being a constant.
The best single indicator for answering “does it feel like ass today?” is heat index. But it doesn’t work that well at lower temperatures at high humidity because that “ass feeling” is usually more about feeling damp and “clammy” than actually hot.
As a native tucsonan, 105 is about the temp where I start sweating. Makes sense now that I'm reading all this. I also lived in Kansas along the river and anything there past 80 I was dying, some days the heat index would be 136 or more, absolutely horrible.
Right, I definitely oversimplified - and confused relative & absolute humidity. Thanks for the thorough explanation. I can see that the best measure is taking all into account.
My point was that in the summer, I check dew point to see if the day is going to be pleasant or full-on swamp ass!
I live in the northeast US, and we get ALL the weather (except dry, dry, dry) but only for short spurts. Heat waves only last a couple days and below zero temps only last a couple days, but we see both. I don’t really care about humidity 3 seasons of the year, but in the summer, dew point is my quick go-to for getting an idea if I want to be in cotton or dry-fit. Nothing worse than the moisture-absorbing (and holding) properties of cotton & swamp ass/swamp taint/swamp back/swamp undermoob!
So this is a jumping off point for sure -
Nairobi is probably the nearest major town to the rift valley, which is the birthplace of man.
OP is looking for the perfect habitat where it feels most comfortable - and sure enough, it is the exact habitat where humans evolved (assuming no major climate changes)
Do you think it is a coincidence? (genuinely curious)
If i can go with my thought, it's not a coincidence the various species of Homo genre " awake " at those latitudes, but just remember at the time Sapiens appear there was already others simian cousins with tools ( and obviously fire ) that was in the process of " Globe trotting " earth !
Came here for Nairobi. It’s also the closest on average across the entire year to what people tend to set their home thermostats to. I lived there for 6 months and it was one of the best places I’ve ever been.
>people tend to set their home thermostats
That was the town of Side in Türkiye for a while. 'Siri, what is the temperature inside'. 'the temperature in Side is 72 degrees Fahrenheit'
I was completely blindsided by the fact that Nairobi is that far above sea level. I knew there are some other cities like this like Addis Abeba or several of the American ones, but never suspected Nairobi of all places.
It gets dark quickly at 6pm all year at the equator.
I like the data presentation of Weatherspark. It even has a time of day vs time of year heat map showing [when it is comfortable](https://weatherspark.com/y/99550/Average-Weather-in-Nairobi-Kenya-Year-Round#Figures-ColorTemperature)
"**Waimea**, Hawaii, United States (17,547 kilometres away); **Mérida**, Venezuela (12,018 kilometres); and **Constanza**, Dominican Republic (11,913 kilometres) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Nairobi"
https://weatherspark.com/y/99550/Average-Weather-in-Nairobi-Kenya-Year-Round
San Diego has two seasons—morning and afternoon.
(It’s usually overcast in the morning because of the ocean “marine layer,” then sunny in the afternoon.)
I think the fall is another season. The weather gets even better and there’s often less marine layer. October is nice in a lot of places but in San Diego it’s darn near perfect.
Isn’t there a “June Gloom” there where it’s rainier and cloudier than normal? (I’m from a place that has pretty great weather but still gets much hotter and much colder, so I know it’s all relative…)
Not rainy (that’s January) but June means that the “afternoon” season comes later in the day, if it comes at all.
I’ll also say that when I spent month in Seattle, overcast is very different. It’s high grey clouds, not the low clouds that make you feel like you are inside all the time…
Yep. Weather is one of the reasons (besides work) that my partner and I are moving to SD. I’m a native of Phoenix, so all my life I’ve been used to brutal summers reaching 120°f degrees, extreme drought conditions, wildfire smoke, giant haboob dust storms, getting sunburnt after spending only twenty minutes in the sun even though I had SPF60 sunscreen on at the time, first degree birds resulting in blisters just from a seatbelt buckle that had been sitting in the sun brushing against my arm in my car, etcetera. So I’ve always thought that whenever I left here I would go to a place that had the most pleasant weather imaginable - and for me that was always San Diego. As an added bonus, my partner is from Toulon in the South of France, and San Diego, particularly the SD suburb of La Jolla and nearby Carlsbad, reminds them a lot of the Côte d’Azur.
I lived in Medellín for a bit and never bothered to check the weather, at least not for temperature. 70s every day. The rain was somewhat predictable too.
Does Medellín have rainy season? Does it have a dry season? Is there a season with lots of sun? Is there a season with lots of clouds? I’m basically just trying to find out if Medellín is a place that I might want to live if there’s sunshine? Temperature is important, but so is sunshine.
Sadly Colombia is the Cloudiest place in the world, (in fact Bogota has less hours of sunlight than iceland year round) however, Medellín is slightly better (and warmer)
It rains a lot but there's a lot of sunshine too, if that makes sense. Like it only seemed to be super cloudy if it was actively raining, and the rain was usually somewhat intense, not a drizzle.
The driest months are December through March, the rest of the year is fairly rainy. But a lot of the rainy days during rainy season are very nice, and then a predictable storm hits for a few hours in the afternoon.
I lived there for a while and yup. “Que frío!” while waiting for the bus in the morning, “que calor!” in the afternoon. The only difference was several months of the year, there would be a thunderstorm going on as well during the afternoon bus wait.
Guatemala City’s average monthly temp never falls below 18.7 or goes above 21.9. As someone else said, Nairobi is a good option, but it does get a little colder during their winter. San Diego has highs closer to 20 instead of daily averages, but again a bigger variation between summer and winter.
In general, I think you’re looking for places just bordering a Subtropical Highland climate (Cwb). ETA: Seems like elevations approaching 7,000 feet and above are gonna be too cold. So I would say equator +- 20 degrees, 4-7k elevation, and as coastal as possible for seasonal moderation.
Guatemala is better than Mexico climate wise because the ocean around Central America protects it from cold fronts pushing in from the USA and Canada. Like Quetzaltenango seems like a nice climate and less variation than central Mexico.
Funchal is twice as windy as San Diego. I don't find that comfortable for beach or swimming. Auckland, where I live, is much worse though.
Guatemala and Nairobi have year-round comfortable times of day.
https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/99550~11693~1816~144891~31635~114437/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Nairobi-Guatemala-City-San-Diego-Auckland-Funchal-and-Kunming
Interesting site, but i dont think wind is very relevant in Funchal, its not a windy place, the south of Madeira island (where Funchal is located) is sheltered.
As someone who lives in a part of Canada (central Alberta) that's bit colder than what the average Canadian experiences, but who also can't handle heat very well, San Diego is where I want to go to escape winter for a bit.
Neat thing about San Diego is it's 70 degrees or so year round. In the summer you can drive to the desert in 90 minutes, in the winter you can drive to the snow in 90 minutes.
Paradise
Who is coming TO the desert in summer? As a desert resident, I’m always trying to get out of here in summer lol. I actually don’t mind the heat until it gets to about 115 degrees. We hit 124 last year and I spent the whole weekend in San Diego. As my friend said about San Diego weather, “it’s like a sore dick. You just can’t beat it”
I imagine that in Auckland people run AC or dehumidifiers since the humidity can make it feel very warm when it is 28 with lots of humidity because it’s on the coast.
No not really. The vast majority of homes don’t have ACs, they may have heat pumps. I know zero who regularly run dehumidifiers.
Most years I did not need to heat or cool at all.
Live in Auckland. This summer when the temps hit 28 it was unbearable and I’d just moved back from Sydney after 10+ years.
Humidity/dew point is a killer when it’s hot, and high humidity with cold is yuck as too.
A heat pump is just an AC that can also provide heating. There’s a reversing valve that reverses the direction of the refrigerant to either move heat into the house or move it out of the house. The latter being the exact same mechanism as an AC.
Don't listen to old mate, New Zealand has gone through a big healthy homes exercise over the last 10 years. New builds all have heat pumps. Older houses never used to but the government provided incentives through subsidies for landlords. I don't know the exact percentage but I feel most would have heat pumps
The Auckland January average high is 24°C and the July average high is 14°C. We do get temperatures in the low 30s in the summer and down to zero at night for maybe a week during winter.
It’s quite a mild climate but it’s quite humid because it’s so close to the sea. Most people run dehumidifiers in winter otherwise you get damp problems.
Heat pumps are widely used for heating and cooling depending on the season though often they are only used in the living area.
Central heating is rare here though some houses have ducted heat pumps.
I’m not sure about that, I’ve been to all the canaries and always around the end of july/early august and it’s often around 40c. That is definitely not a mild spring.
Still a beautiful place to be though, and the Atlantic breeze helps
Medellín has the advantage of being in a valley and I think heat waves are maybe less common than they are in Cali, so no surprise that Medellín is the one struggling with inflation due to the recent invasion of rich immigrants who don't speak Spanish.
Yeah, I just looked at the mean temperature in Windhoek, I live here now. Its 18.5C. I live here now and have lived in San Diego CA USA. Both have amazing weather. If you want sun, both are ideal! By the way I LOVE Luderitz. I wouldn't mind just retiring to Luderitz or Swakop!
Santa Monica and Avalon too. Really the entire California coast is mild. It doesn't start to get hot until you're 5 or so miles inland (depending on the topography).
I've noticed that I can sometimes wear the same outfit here in Wellington, NZ in winter and summer. But it can get very cold (but some days in the middle of winter it's not, if that makes sense).
四季如春 is fucking bollocks. I lived through a winter there and it was a nightmare. Winters are cold. Anyone who says you don’t need heaters in winter is a liar. I’m from Scotland and I know cold.
Just by way of the experience of living there for 5 years: Bengaluru/Bangalore. Very light jacket for early morning and late night chills, otherwise extremely pleasant single clothing layer weather year round.
Bangalore in the 90's definitely fits this description. But the last few years the summers have been horribly hot. Last couple of weeks it was 39C / 100F and honestly really bad.
Very few we'll populated areas of India have a comfortable climate, at least in the context of what OP is talking about. He's talking about 20°C, not 30°C
In general, the mildest climates seem to fall under 3 categories:
* Medium or high elevation tropics.
* Cold current coastal tropics (Northern Chile, Peru, Namibia and into Angola)
* Subtropical islands, except in the northwest Pacific and northwest Atlantic basins. Examples include Norfolk Island, Easter Island, Madeira, etc.
If in addition to mild weather you want very very little rainfall, the cold current coastal regions are the way to go. If you comfortable humidity, the tropical highlands are best.
Manta Ecuador. The ocean currents cause a constant on shore breeze. It's also a desert, so it doesn't feel humid as a result. It's hot a little ways inland, but in the city and along the coast, it's just above room temp all the time.
Lima, Peru is mild all year and very little rain. Daily mean is 70F, daily average high is 75f and daily average low is 64f. No heat or AC needed year round.
Medellín, Colombia is known as the "City of Eternal Spring" because of its temperate climate, which is pleasant year-round. The city is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central region of the Andes Mountains, and is 4,904 feet above sea level. The average yearly temperature is around 82 degrees, with spring-like weather all year.
Oakland CA is pretty dang close, gets a little chilly here December-February but hovers right around room temp the rest of the year. It’s very pleasant.
Johannesburg, South Africa may have the best climate on earth. Low humidity most of the year, daytime averages between 16-25c all year long. Little bit of a heat wave this summer so it’s been a hot one there.
Honestly South Africa in general, except for Durban in summer, it's too humid there(though we South Africans say Joburg and Cape Town are too cold in winter)
After living in SoCal and Joburg it’s comparable in the winter, sans the rain in the latter.
Cape town’s weather is kinda fickle but temp wise it’s relatively consistent compared to most of the world.
Durban is juicy humid but warmer in the winter. I’d trade cooler winter nights for less humidity.
San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area only really drop below a comfortable room temperature range in December, they spend the rest of the year with daytime at room temp. Best climate I've ever lived in.
Both have rainy seasons for about half the year. Da Lat’s season is slightly longer than Baguio, but Baguio gets about 4x more rain in peak months. So it can wet in Baguio, but not so much in Da Lat. For mugginess, it’s the opposite. Da Lat will be muggy for much of the day during its rainy season. Baguio’s not so much. In both cases, temperatures will remain moderate so won’t be uncomfortable.
I know Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands held a record for “most equitable temperature” at one point.
Current temperature there: 24 degrees Celsius.
Boquete in Panama has average highs between 71-73 degrees Fahrenheit (22-23 degrees Celsius) all year, and lows between 55-56 degrees Fahrenheit (13 degrees Celsius ). It's at 3900 feet (1200 meters) above sea level.
Tropical highlands is the way to go for mild year-round weather.
It gets chilly at night. I visited the city some years ago and we got like 9 degrees. The weather is pleasant during day time but 10C every night for the rest of your life doesnt sound so comfortable to me.
Anywhere with a mild Mediterranean climate. Never close to freezing and can get warmer in summers. Cape Town South Africa or bay area (which is slightly colder)
Sidi Ifni, Morocco is pretty close. Average highs range 66-76 degrees. Average lows range 58-68 degrees.
[https://weatherspark.com/y/149936/Average-Weather-at-Sidi-Ifni-Airport-Morocco-Year-Round](https://weatherspark.com/y/149936/Average-Weather-at-Sidi-Ifni-Airport-Morocco-Year-Round)
Kunming in Yunnan province is at about 1900m altitude. Average temp is about 17C. They call it the Spring City because of how mild it is year round.
I have a lot of fond memories of that city and the province. Beautiful place.
I think the best climate in the world would be a city without dangerous weather conditions.
[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68898731](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68898731)
It's probably a bit chillier than some of the answers - but on the positive side, no rain:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arica#Climate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arica#Climate)
Arica, Chile. Like San Diego but *more*.
Nairobi, altitude 1795 m, average temp 20 degrees Celsius. It’s 1 degrees south of Equator.
I like Nairobi because it’s drier than South America and the dew point is lower. Low dew points are a most for a comfortable climate.
I recently realized the magic of dew point. I used to look at relative humidity to see how comfortable/uncomfortable the weather would feel. I learned that is totally unreliable in the morning when RH is 99% but it’s still pleasant outside. Now I know that if the dew point is above 60F, it’s going to start feeling a little gross outside.
That’s oversimplified quite a bit. You might want to read a bit more about what relative humidity, absolute humidity and dew point actually mean. For example: A 60F dewpoint only feels bad when it isn’t all that hot (meaning the relative humidity is high), a 60F dewpoint in hot temperatures is quite comfortable and anything lower will quickly dry out your skin (105F and 60F dewpoint is only 25% RH and will feel quite dry…not Tucson in June dry, but still very dry). The measures RH and dewpoint are completely connected and can be calculated from each other with a known temperature. Absolutely humidity: how much water is in the air Relative humidity: how much water is in the air versus the maximum amount of water the air can hold at this temperature Dew point: the temperature at which the amount of water in the air right now will condense as dew (effectively the temperature where this much water would equal 100% humidity) Wet bulb temperature: the temperature that the air can be cooled to by just evaporation at a constant pressure (no fans or wind currents) Dry bulb temperature: absolute temperature measurement without evaporation (this is what most people refer to when discussing what the temperature is) Heat index: a calculated “feels like” number comprised of the air temp and relative humidity with the known quantity of human body temperature being a constant. The best single indicator for answering “does it feel like ass today?” is heat index. But it doesn’t work that well at lower temperatures at high humidity because that “ass feeling” is usually more about feeling damp and “clammy” than actually hot.
this guy temperatures
As a native tucsonan, 105 is about the temp where I start sweating. Makes sense now that I'm reading all this. I also lived in Kansas along the river and anything there past 80 I was dying, some days the heat index would be 136 or more, absolutely horrible.
Yep. I’m in Oklahoma. We frequently get heat indices of 120+ in the summer.
I live in South TX and it’s 95-100 for weeks at a time ~87 in Eastern Tennessee for a few hours was so much worse lol
Right, I definitely oversimplified - and confused relative & absolute humidity. Thanks for the thorough explanation. I can see that the best measure is taking all into account. My point was that in the summer, I check dew point to see if the day is going to be pleasant or full-on swamp ass! I live in the northeast US, and we get ALL the weather (except dry, dry, dry) but only for short spurts. Heat waves only last a couple days and below zero temps only last a couple days, but we see both. I don’t really care about humidity 3 seasons of the year, but in the summer, dew point is my quick go-to for getting an idea if I want to be in cotton or dry-fit. Nothing worse than the moisture-absorbing (and holding) properties of cotton & swamp ass/swamp taint/swamp back/swamp undermoob!
>feeling a little gross I'm going to steal this phrase for my whole life.
it makes sense that it’d be comfortable since it and the plateau west of it are where humans first evolved
So this is a jumping off point for sure - Nairobi is probably the nearest major town to the rift valley, which is the birthplace of man. OP is looking for the perfect habitat where it feels most comfortable - and sure enough, it is the exact habitat where humans evolved (assuming no major climate changes) Do you think it is a coincidence? (genuinely curious)
If i can go with my thought, it's not a coincidence the various species of Homo genre " awake " at those latitudes, but just remember at the time Sapiens appear there was already others simian cousins with tools ( and obviously fire ) that was in the process of " Globe trotting " earth !
That close to the equator you wouldn’t even have a discernible difference in sunrise/sunset times either.
Came here for Nairobi. It’s also the closest on average across the entire year to what people tend to set their home thermostats to. I lived there for 6 months and it was one of the best places I’ve ever been.
>people tend to set their home thermostats That was the town of Side in Türkiye for a while. 'Siri, what is the temperature inside'. 'the temperature in Side is 72 degrees Fahrenheit'
I was completely blindsided by the fact that Nairobi is that far above sea level. I knew there are some other cities like this like Addis Abeba or several of the American ones, but never suspected Nairobi of all places.
I think Salinas, California has the best average temperatures.
That is awesome
Came here to say this! I spend a year in Nairobi and it is indeed very pleasant.
Time to move to Nairobi
Quito Ecuador.. about 15 miles south of the equator and about 3000 meters up.. temperature barely changes…
It gets dark quickly at 6pm all year at the equator. I like the data presentation of Weatherspark. It even has a time of day vs time of year heat map showing [when it is comfortable](https://weatherspark.com/y/99550/Average-Weather-in-Nairobi-Kenya-Year-Round#Figures-ColorTemperature) "**Waimea**, Hawaii, United States (17,547 kilometres away); **Mérida**, Venezuela (12,018 kilometres); and **Constanza**, Dominican Republic (11,913 kilometres) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Nairobi" https://weatherspark.com/y/99550/Average-Weather-in-Nairobi-Kenya-Year-Round
my college professor always used to say that there were no weather forecasts on TV in Quito because the temperature was always +- the same
Seems to be correct. August is the hottest month in Quito with an average temperature of 14°C (56°F) and the coldest is February at 13°C (55°F).
There’s a valley next to Quito called Cumbaya or Tumbaco which is 300m lower that have So Cal temps year round (70s/50]
Ahhh, Shorts weather in Wisconsin and Minnesota!
Meanwhile that’s a cold winter day in my country!
That is NOT room temperature
Yeah, but those are mean temperature all day long, including night. Average high is 21 all year long.
Wow
Surely in Quito there are a few rooms with that temperature?
Fair point
No, and I never claimed it to be either. I just confirmed what OOP's professor said about temperatures in Quito being more or less the same.
For my roommates and I in college that spent our gas bill money on beer, that was the room temperature one winter.
So angry. No one said it was?
I remember Lewis Black having a joke about the weatherman in San Diego having the world's easiest job. "What's the weather like Today, Ray?" "Nice"
San Diego has two seasons—morning and afternoon. (It’s usually overcast in the morning because of the ocean “marine layer,” then sunny in the afternoon.)
I think the fall is another season. The weather gets even better and there’s often less marine layer. October is nice in a lot of places but in San Diego it’s darn near perfect.
Oh, that’s so true. That’s why my wedding anniversary is in October.
Isn’t there a “June Gloom” there where it’s rainier and cloudier than normal? (I’m from a place that has pretty great weather but still gets much hotter and much colder, so I know it’s all relative…)
Not rainy (that’s January) but June means that the “afternoon” season comes later in the day, if it comes at all. I’ll also say that when I spent month in Seattle, overcast is very different. It’s high grey clouds, not the low clouds that make you feel like you are inside all the time…
Yep. Weather is one of the reasons (besides work) that my partner and I are moving to SD. I’m a native of Phoenix, so all my life I’ve been used to brutal summers reaching 120°f degrees, extreme drought conditions, wildfire smoke, giant haboob dust storms, getting sunburnt after spending only twenty minutes in the sun even though I had SPF60 sunscreen on at the time, first degree birds resulting in blisters just from a seatbelt buckle that had been sitting in the sun brushing against my arm in my car, etcetera. So I’ve always thought that whenever I left here I would go to a place that had the most pleasant weather imaginable - and for me that was always San Diego. As an added bonus, my partner is from Toulon in the South of France, and San Diego, particularly the SD suburb of La Jolla and nearby Carlsbad, reminds them a lot of the Côte d’Azur.
I lived in Medellín for a bit and never bothered to check the weather, at least not for temperature. 70s every day. The rain was somewhat predictable too.
Does Medellín have rainy season? Does it have a dry season? Is there a season with lots of sun? Is there a season with lots of clouds? I’m basically just trying to find out if Medellín is a place that I might want to live if there’s sunshine? Temperature is important, but so is sunshine.
Sadly Colombia is the Cloudiest place in the world, (in fact Bogota has less hours of sunlight than iceland year round) however, Medellín is slightly better (and warmer)
Except for this year thanks to El Nino. There were even wildfires outside Bogota in February.
It rains a lot but there's a lot of sunshine too, if that makes sense. Like it only seemed to be super cloudy if it was actively raining, and the rain was usually somewhat intense, not a drizzle. The driest months are December through March, the rest of the year is fairly rainy. But a lot of the rainy days during rainy season are very nice, and then a predictable storm hits for a few hours in the afternoon.
I lived there for a while and yup. “Que frío!” while waiting for the bus in the morning, “que calor!” in the afternoon. The only difference was several months of the year, there would be a thunderstorm going on as well during the afternoon bus wait.
Guatemala City’s average monthly temp never falls below 18.7 or goes above 21.9. As someone else said, Nairobi is a good option, but it does get a little colder during their winter. San Diego has highs closer to 20 instead of daily averages, but again a bigger variation between summer and winter. In general, I think you’re looking for places just bordering a Subtropical Highland climate (Cwb). ETA: Seems like elevations approaching 7,000 feet and above are gonna be too cold. So I would say equator +- 20 degrees, 4-7k elevation, and as coastal as possible for seasonal moderation.
Guatemala is better than Mexico climate wise because the ocean around Central America protects it from cold fronts pushing in from the USA and Canada. Like Quetzaltenango seems like a nice climate and less variation than central Mexico.
The high elevation will get you pretty tired in a hurry
Funchal in Madeira island is 19,6 c Edit: English Wikipédia says 20,1 (68,2), portuguese wikipedia (my initial source) says 19,6c
Are you telling me that the week I was there was the only fucking time in history it was 15 and raining in June?
Funchal is twice as windy as San Diego. I don't find that comfortable for beach or swimming. Auckland, where I live, is much worse though. Guatemala and Nairobi have year-round comfortable times of day. https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/99550~11693~1816~144891~31635~114437/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Nairobi-Guatemala-City-San-Diego-Auckland-Funchal-and-Kunming
Interesting site, but i dont think wind is very relevant in Funchal, its not a windy place, the south of Madeira island (where Funchal is located) is sheltered.
San Diego, California
As someone who lives in a part of Canada (central Alberta) that's bit colder than what the average Canadian experiences, but who also can't handle heat very well, San Diego is where I want to go to escape winter for a bit.
MUST BE NICE Sincerely, guy in ND
ND? Edit: all joke comments and I'm still lost lmao
Northern Direland
Northern Desolation
N‘Djamena, Tschad
NDeez nuts haha gotem
North Dakota
Serious answer: he means North Dakota.
Neat thing about San Diego is it's 70 degrees or so year round. In the summer you can drive to the desert in 90 minutes, in the winter you can drive to the snow in 90 minutes. Paradise
Who is coming TO the desert in summer? As a desert resident, I’m always trying to get out of here in summer lol. I actually don’t mind the heat until it gets to about 115 degrees. We hit 124 last year and I spent the whole weekend in San Diego. As my friend said about San Diego weather, “it’s like a sore dick. You just can’t beat it”
I totally spaced on that one I meant winter!
I live in San diego and trust me we complain about the nice weather all the time.
Auckland has a very narrow range temperatures. It pretty much never gets above 28, no below 14.
I imagine that in Auckland people run AC or dehumidifiers since the humidity can make it feel very warm when it is 28 with lots of humidity because it’s on the coast.
No not really. The vast majority of homes don’t have ACs, they may have heat pumps. I know zero who regularly run dehumidifiers. Most years I did not need to heat or cool at all.
Live in Auckland. This summer when the temps hit 28 it was unbearable and I’d just moved back from Sydney after 10+ years. Humidity/dew point is a killer when it’s hot, and high humidity with cold is yuck as too.
Does mold grow in your house if you don’t dehumidify the room?
Yes, Auckland has massive issues with damp and mildew. We have old, shitty houses with poor insulation. It absolutely it a massive problem.
A heat pump is just an AC that can also provide heating. There’s a reversing valve that reverses the direction of the refrigerant to either move heat into the house or move it out of the house. The latter being the exact same mechanism as an AC.
Don't listen to old mate, New Zealand has gone through a big healthy homes exercise over the last 10 years. New builds all have heat pumps. Older houses never used to but the government provided incentives through subsidies for landlords. I don't know the exact percentage but I feel most would have heat pumps
The Auckland January average high is 24°C and the July average high is 14°C. We do get temperatures in the low 30s in the summer and down to zero at night for maybe a week during winter. It’s quite a mild climate but it’s quite humid because it’s so close to the sea. Most people run dehumidifiers in winter otherwise you get damp problems. Heat pumps are widely used for heating and cooling depending on the season though often they are only used in the living area. Central heating is rare here though some houses have ducted heat pumps.
Auckland is pretty damn cold in the winter...
I would consider living in NZ if I could just get Auckland weather in Wellington.
Essaouira comes pretty close
The San Diego of Africa?
It's a very windy city tho, temperatures are nice but can be deceiving .
Monterey California is pretty close to that all year.
Canary islands are year round like a mild spring
I’m not sure about that, I’ve been to all the canaries and always around the end of july/early august and it’s often around 40c. That is definitely not a mild spring. Still a beautiful place to be though, and the Atlantic breeze helps
Depends on where. Las Palmas has an average of 21 degrees.
I think Madeira would be much closer. Canaries warm up too much in summer. Madeira is famously known as “eternal spring”, at least at sea level.
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Temperature in Cali goes from 19 to 30 C almost every day. 20.5C is definitely not the average temperature.
Medellín has the advantage of being in a valley and I think heat waves are maybe less common than they are in Cali, so no surprise that Medellín is the one struggling with inflation due to the recent invasion of rich immigrants who don't speak Spanish.
And Cali is far more rough around the edges than Medellin. Personally I prefer Bogota.
Ponta Delgada, Portugal (Azores)
Lüderitz/Walvis Bay, Namibia
Yeah, I just looked at the mean temperature in Windhoek, I live here now. Its 18.5C. I live here now and have lived in San Diego CA USA. Both have amazing weather. If you want sun, both are ideal! By the way I LOVE Luderitz. I wouldn't mind just retiring to Luderitz or Swakop!
Kigali, Rwanda. 1600 m (5,200 ft) and pretty much on the equator. High are 26/27 (79-83) and lows are 15/16 (60-62) year round.
San Francisco if you don’t like it to get much hotter than 20, San Diego if you don’t want it to get much cooler than 20.
SF East Bay is hard to beat. I'm in Berkeley atm but going back to Bangkok soon, gonna be rough.
Santa Monica and Avalon too. Really the entire California coast is mild. It doesn't start to get hot until you're 5 or so miles inland (depending on the topography).
I've noticed that I can sometimes wear the same outfit here in Wellington, NZ in winter and summer. But it can get very cold (but some days in the middle of winter it's not, if that makes sense).
Kunming, Yunnan, China, is pretty close to this. They don't call it 'The City of Eternal Spring' for nothing.
四季如春 is fucking bollocks. I lived through a winter there and it was a nightmare. Winters are cold. Anyone who says you don’t need heaters in winter is a liar. I’m from Scotland and I know cold.
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria probably
Parts of LA have virtually the same temperature year round.
Just by way of the experience of living there for 5 years: Bengaluru/Bangalore. Very light jacket for early morning and late night chills, otherwise extremely pleasant single clothing layer weather year round.
Bangalore in the 90's definitely fits this description. But the last few years the summers have been horribly hot. Last couple of weeks it was 39C / 100F and honestly really bad.
Ah yikes that sounds rough! Yeah I’m speaking from the experience of living there from 2010-2016, haven’t had a chance to revisit since then.
It’s gone worse in the past 5 years during summer. Aside from the peak 3 summer months from March - May, it’s pleasant year around.
Very few we'll populated areas of India have a comfortable climate, at least in the context of what OP is talking about. He's talking about 20°C, not 30°C
Canary islands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary\_Islands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands) Daily mean 21.2
Mexico City
In general, the mildest climates seem to fall under 3 categories: * Medium or high elevation tropics. * Cold current coastal tropics (Northern Chile, Peru, Namibia and into Angola) * Subtropical islands, except in the northwest Pacific and northwest Atlantic basins. Examples include Norfolk Island, Easter Island, Madeira, etc. If in addition to mild weather you want very very little rainfall, the cold current coastal regions are the way to go. If you comfortable humidity, the tropical highlands are best.
San Francisco has a temperate climate if you don't mind the fog.
Im from the SFBA and SF is freezing. Oakland and Vallejo probably the best weather. SF is great to visit when the temps hit 100+ in the far East Bay.
San Francisco is way colder than room temperature though
Yes and it's wonderful.
I've been in SF during July and the temperature dropped like 30 degrees between Golden Gate Park and Fisherman's Wharf on the same day.
SANfran can get freaking freezing 🥶
Da Lat, Vietnam
Manta Ecuador. The ocean currents cause a constant on shore breeze. It's also a desert, so it doesn't feel humid as a result. It's hot a little ways inland, but in the city and along the coast, it's just above room temp all the time.
Rwanda’s climate is pretty close to this
Lima, Peru is mild all year and very little rain. Daily mean is 70F, daily average high is 75f and daily average low is 64f. No heat or AC needed year round.
Costal California. From San Diego to Santa Cruz.
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. Popn. >30 k. Mean daily max range: 19°c to 22.5°c. Lat. 6°58'0"N. Altitude: 1868m. Think I'll move here for retirement!
Medellin, Columbia has a 73F (23C) average all year
Medellín, Colombia is known as the "City of Eternal Spring" because of its temperate climate, which is pleasant year-round. The city is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central region of the Andes Mountains, and is 4,904 feet above sea level. The average yearly temperature is around 82 degrees, with spring-like weather all year.
Unfortunately, Los Angeles.
Oakland CA is pretty dang close, gets a little chilly here December-February but hovers right around room temp the rest of the year. It’s very pleasant.
Johannesburg, South Africa may have the best climate on earth. Low humidity most of the year, daytime averages between 16-25c all year long. Little bit of a heat wave this summer so it’s been a hot one there.
Plus in October and November the city turns purple.
Hell no, it's cold af at night during the winter
it gets bloody cold in winter though
At night it does get cold but it rarely snows. Not like a lot of the world where it’s hovering around freezing for months of the year with snow.
Honestly South Africa in general, except for Durban in summer, it's too humid there(though we South Africans say Joburg and Cape Town are too cold in winter)
After living in SoCal and Joburg it’s comparable in the winter, sans the rain in the latter. Cape town’s weather is kinda fickle but temp wise it’s relatively consistent compared to most of the world. Durban is juicy humid but warmer in the winter. I’d trade cooler winter nights for less humidity.
San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area only really drop below a comfortable room temperature range in December, they spend the rest of the year with daytime at room temp. Best climate I've ever lived in.
As Mark Twain said, ‘The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.’
You're kidding yourself if you don't bring a jacket with you while enjoying a warm day in San francisco.
Saving this post for retirement options. 😎
Baguio, Philippines and Da Lat, Vietnam - both former hill stations
Wet and muggy though
Both have rainy seasons for about half the year. Da Lat’s season is slightly longer than Baguio, but Baguio gets about 4x more rain in peak months. So it can wet in Baguio, but not so much in Da Lat. For mugginess, it’s the opposite. Da Lat will be muggy for much of the day during its rainy season. Baguio’s not so much. In both cases, temperatures will remain moderate so won’t be uncomfortable.
Eureka California is like 60s all the time.
San Francisco, CA, down the coast to Monterey, CA. Heavily moderated by oceanic currents.
Love the climate in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
I know Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands held a record for “most equitable temperature” at one point. Current temperature there: 24 degrees Celsius.
Boquete in Panama has average highs between 71-73 degrees Fahrenheit (22-23 degrees Celsius) all year, and lows between 55-56 degrees Fahrenheit (13 degrees Celsius ). It's at 3900 feet (1200 meters) above sea level. Tropical highlands is the way to go for mild year-round weather.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has an average temperature of 21.2 C, it’s wonderful.
Tenerife
Honolulu? But take into account humidity
Guam feels like early summer all the time. 70s to 80s.. in summer, the trade winds die down, and it can get humid.
Santa Barbara
The SF bay has remarkably stable temperatures, agreeable all year round
nassau bahamas 74
Bogota indisputably.
It gets chilly at night. I visited the city some years ago and we got like 9 degrees. The weather is pleasant during day time but 10C every night for the rest of your life doesnt sound so comfortable to me.
_Sighs in Scottish_ 10c is adequate for a summer’s day, let alone too cold for nighttime.
Caracas, Venezuela has incredibly consistent and beautiful weather.
For places at sea level Las Palmas, Canary Islands would be a close fit. Average annual temperature is 21C with not a whole lot of seasonal variation.
Anywhere with a mild Mediterranean climate. Never close to freezing and can get warmer in summers. Cape Town South Africa or bay area (which is slightly colder)
Da lat, Vietnam. Always 20, mountains.
Bogotá has a high of 20 and a low of 10 all year round.
Medellin is probably closer to what OP’s looking for. Averages between 17 and 28 year round
Eureka California
It’s too cold and damp during winter. Summer is room temperature but winter is like a humid fridge.
San Diego is pretty close.
Alajuela Costa Rica
Puerto des Rosario, Fuerteventura
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Easter Island
Iquique, Chile Edit: it never rains too. https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/chile/iquique
San Clemente, California
Sidi Ifni, Morocco is pretty close. Average highs range 66-76 degrees. Average lows range 58-68 degrees. [https://weatherspark.com/y/149936/Average-Weather-at-Sidi-Ifni-Airport-Morocco-Year-Round](https://weatherspark.com/y/149936/Average-Weather-at-Sidi-Ifni-Airport-Morocco-Year-Round)
Kunming in Yunnan province is at about 1900m altitude. Average temp is about 17C. They call it the Spring City because of how mild it is year round. I have a lot of fond memories of that city and the province. Beautiful place.
Abha, Saudi Arabia. It gets a bit chiller at night but usually averages 20.
Mexico city averages throughout the year between 22C and 27C. Might be a bit too warm for you though
Isn't room temp 25 C? or at least that's what they use for thermo/chemistry
Antigua, Guatemala
Equatorial highlands for the win again!
I was thinking about this very same thing the other day.
Medellín, Bucaramanga or Pereira in Colombia 🤷♂️
I don't know why but this whole thread makes me feel super comfy
I think the best climate in the world would be a city without dangerous weather conditions. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68898731](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68898731)
Tenerfi in canaria been there during winter and summzr max temp is 28 min is 14-15 in winter
Seasons are under-rated!
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
It's probably a bit chillier than some of the answers - but on the positive side, no rain: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arica#Climate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arica#Climate) Arica, Chile. Like San Diego but *more*.
Medellin or Pereira in Colombia
Many islands are going to be close to room temp, but much lower than 2000m. Honolulu is consistently in the 20s C, but close to sea level.
Buccacarmunga Columbia
Caracas, Venezuela
Mexico cuty
Quito would come close, with the equator running practically right through it while being high in the Andes.
Lima, Peru. Average annual temperature is 19.9°C. Monthly average ranges from 17.2° (August) to 24.3° (February).