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These winters are virtually the same for a snow-lover like me: gray and cool, but not cold. This is meh territory, but at least it's cool enough for me not to worry about sweating. Shanghai gets flurries or something winter-like a few times every winter though, so I'll choose that city.
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Despite winter being the dry season in pretty much all (bar extreme western parts) of China, the east coast of China all the way to the border of Vietnam actually gets a lot of moist, cloudy systems from the South and East China sea, and even westerly systems. Shanghai gets just 4 hours of bright sun in January on average, which is actually about the SAME as Hobart, at 43'S. In fact, it's winters are about as gloomy as Melbourne, despite it being their 'dry' season precipitation wise. They get many cloudy days with no rain or drizzle.
Hobart in winter is a bit drier and colder than Melbourne, and I imagine a bit stormier than Shanghai. Temperature-wise it's certainly milder, though, so I'll go with Hobart.
There are 12 degrees of latitude difference between Shanghai and Hobart and Hobart is still warmer in winter.... In fact Shanghai's winters seem almost on par with London which is 20 degrees latitude difference!
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There are 12 degrees of latitude difference between Shanghai and Hobart and Hobart is still warmer in winter.... In fact Shanghai's winters seem almost on par with London which is 20 degrees latitude difference!
Shanghai has the Asian landmass including Siberia above it, while Hobart has a couple of thousand kilometres of ocean between it and the Antarctic.
Hobart seems nicer. Don't see any advantage to Shanghai.
Yeah, that's my choice and reasoning too. Warmer winter wins. Although Shanghai has less days over which rain falls, for what that's worth.
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Despite winter being the dry season in pretty much all (bar extreme western parts) of China, the east coast of China all the way to the border of Vietnam actually gets a lot of moist, cloudy systems from the South and East China sea, and even westerly systems. Shanghai gets just 4 hours of bright sun in January on average, which is actually about the SAME as Hobart, at 43'S. In fact, it's winters are about as gloomy as Melbourne, despite it being their 'dry' season precipitation wise. They get many cloudy days with no rain or drizzle.
Hobart in winter is a bit drier and colder than Melbourne, and I imagine a bit stormier than Shanghai. Temperature-wise it's certainly milder, though, so I'll go with Hobart.
I suppose "dry season" is a bit of a misnomer then -- it would be dry in the sense that say London is "dry" relative to NYC -- little, sparse drizzly precipitation still present over many days.
When I imagine a climate with a dry season in that sense, I tend to visualize a place like Darwin, Bangkok or Bombay where the dry winter time is sunny, not drizzly or cloudy (leading to often even more sun in winter). Though that might be a tropical climate thing, and Shanghai is not really like those.
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