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30-40 degrees on average, bar some exceptions where cold ocean currents predominate (west coast of Africa and South America).
Most places closer than 30 degrees have too lengthy, as well as punishing summers- and non-existant winters.
The only low-land exceptions to this are island climates.
Further than 40 degrees cool weather becomes too prevalent.
I would classify where I live at 32 degrees South as middle latitude, due to the absence of land in the Southern Hemisphere at far latitudes.
All depends on which part of the world we're talking about. I quite like the fact I come from a high latitude where I don't need to hide from the midday midsummer sun, don't often need to worry about being unable to sleep in a stifling hot bedroom and get the oddness of being able to play golf outside at 10pm at one time of year and seeing the streetlights come on at 3pm at another, but most 50s climates around the world except for Europe and western Canada are horrendous for one reason or another.
My favourite climates I've seen are generally in an area stretching from the southern Alps and northern Italy in the west going to the northern Balkans and Hungary in the east, so 45N or so. My favourite climate in the US, Portland, is at that latitude too. If I lived in the Southern Hemisphere then anywhere between the latitudes of Canberra and Auckland in the north and Hobart and Christchurch in the south would do me, so a few degrees either side of 40S. I don't know South America well enough to comment.
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Winters at my latitude, about 32'S, are generally mild at sea-level, but summers in the northern hemisphere are often just as hot as the tropics. If we're talking southern hemisphere I would say the low to mid 30s are a perfect latitude. In the northern hemisphere, cooler summers come at the sacrifice of significantly colder winters too (except in Europe and the west coast of North America). I would actually pick a slightly higher latitude, more in the mid 30s north latitude.
at 52ish north I find winter days too short, but summer days too. So there is no place for me
If by summer days being too short you actually mean it gets dark too early as opposed to dawn being at a mere 4am, a place for you would be in northwestern Spain at 42N, where because they're in such a crazy time zone for their longitude midwinter days run from roughly 9am to 6pm and midsummer days from 7am to after 10pm, plus twilight - one of the latest solar noons on Earth. Nice climate down there too if you like mild, wet, changeable winters, sunny summers around 25-27C, sunshine in the low 2000s, plus a beautiful coastline with unspoilt, empty beaches and a fantastic green, hilly landscape, ah...*laments lack of photos taken when I was there*....
If by summer days being too short you actually mean it gets dark too early as opposed to dawn being at a mere 4am, a place for you would be in northwestern Spain at 42N, where because they're in such a crazy time zone for their longitude midwinter days run from roughly 9am to 6pm and midsummer days from 7am to after 10pm, plus twilight - one of the latest solar noons on Earth. Nice climate down there too if you like mild, wet, changeable winters, sunny summers around 25-27C, sunshine in the low 2000s, plus a beautiful coastline with unspoilt, empty beaches and a fantastic green, hilly landscape, ah...*laments lack of photos taken when I was there*....
NW Spain seems like one of the better temperate (as opposed to Mediterranean or subtropical) oceanic climates. Sunshine not bad and very comfortable temperature range with the winters warm enough for green year around. Looks much better than US West Coast at a similar latitude.
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