Vancouver Weather vs. Windsor Weather (best climate, areas, cities)
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I've been hearing a lot about how Vancouver is the warmest city in Canada with the best climate. However, I also heard that Windsor, Ontario has one of the warmest climates in Canada too. I heard that Windsor's winter is pretty mild compared to the rest of Canada. It has more snow than Vancouver but I think the winter temperatures can be similar Overall it is one of the warmest ci8ties in Canada along with Vancouver. So which climate do you prefer? Which city do you think has the better weather? Windsor or Vancouver?
You're comparing a humid continental climate to a coastal temperate climate. One that experiences huge extremes (Windsor) with cold (sub-zero and snowy) winters and hot humid summers, to one that doesn't experience as much fluctuation throughout the year temperature-wise (Vancouver) - it's rarely below zero in the winters, it's rarely hot in the summer.
Windsor has four distinct seasons. Vancouver is more of a two season city: wet winters and springs, and dry/warm summers and autumns.
A quick look at a Windsor climate chart shows that the summers are the rainiest times of the year - the complete opposite from Vancouver. The wiki on Windsor shows they typically have 55 days of snow on the ground in Windsor. In Vancouver it can vary from 0 to 14 days. Often it's never cold enough for snow to stick around in Vancouver for longer than a day or two.
Where are you from?
It's like comparing... I don't know... Detroit, Chicago, or Cleveland to Seattle. The west coast is always milder and less extreme because the Pacific Ocean keeps the temperatures warmer in the winter than at equivalent latitudes further east in the continent. But it's also the ocean that keeps the summers cooler than further east.
Windsor is very hot and humid in the summer (you will not survive without air conditioning). It can be very cold in the winter though. The weather is often changeable here (thunderstorms are common too) whereas the weather in Vancouver seems a bit more 'dull'.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has a moderate oceanic climate (Koppen climate classification Cfb) with summer months that are typically dry, often resulting in moderate drought conditions, usually in July and August. In contrast, the rest of the year is rainy, especially between October and March.
Like the rest of coastal British Columbia, the city is tempered by the warmer Southren Pacific Tropical Currents and is also sheltered by the mountains of Vancouver Island, to the west. These influences contribute to making Vancouver the second warmest (after Victoria) of Canada's major cities overall, despite the fact summers are cooler than most other major cities.
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