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New York City 43 63.24%
Tokyo 25 36.76%
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Old 01-19-2014, 01:31 PM
 
Location: Anne Arundel County, MD
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A difference of 5.9F (61.6F vs 55.7F) isn't significant, to me. That isn't downplaying, Tokyo is the warmer city, but not significantly so. But you're entitled to feel differently.
Of course. Another trait is central Tokyo's all-time record low is reached in the vast majority of winters in NY. On similar lines, I told a friend who never visited DC that winters there are on average 7 to 8F warmer than in Pittsburgh, and his response was "not very different, eh"
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Old 01-19-2014, 02:10 PM
 
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Tokyo for being at a latitude of 35N does not have very impressive average highs during the summer (I assume lack of sunshine is partly to blame?), but the minimums are quite impressive.

In 2010, Tokyo had 71 days of temperatures above 30C/86F. Not THAT impressive for 35N. New York City at 41N had a record 67 such days also in 2010.



Winter of course are not my cup of tea.


Overall, I would take NYC's climate
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Old 01-19-2014, 02:30 PM
 
Location: London, UK
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Though choice and interesting battle.

Taking time zones into account, NYC is a clear winner given that Tokyo's ridiculous position relative to its time zone yields unacceptably early sunsets throughout the year (4pm something in winter, and barely 7pm in mid summer).

Discounting time zone issues, I am really torn between the two. Tokyo has temps that are really more pleasant to me and the high winter sunshine is a huge plus (I spent 8 days there in late December once, all but one of these days had crisp blue skies and sunshine). Conversely, summers are far too gloomy and wet. 4 hours per day in June is terrible.

I'm going with NYC for its higher sunshine and more importantly better "real summer" feel.
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Old 01-19-2014, 03:33 PM
 
Location: Buxton UK
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Tokyo
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Old 01-19-2014, 03:36 PM
 
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NYC, sunnier.
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Old 01-19-2014, 05:53 PM
 
Location: York
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New Amsterdam for me.
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Old 01-19-2014, 11:41 PM
 
Location: Mid Atlantic USA
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NYC, sunnier.
NYC sun hours are inflated. Do you really think NYC is that much sunnier to be noticeable?
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Old 01-20-2014, 12:05 AM
 
Location: A subtropical paradise
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NYC sun hours are inflated. Do you really think NYC is that much sunnier to be noticeable?
NYC is much sunnier than Tokyo. Its a fact.
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Old 01-20-2014, 06:52 AM
 
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NYC for being colder.
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Old 01-20-2014, 10:52 AM
 
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NYC sun hours are inflated. Do you really think NYC is that much sunnier to be noticeable?
Tokyo does not use the CS machine to get 1880 hours of sunshine (in the sunnier part of the city).
http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/jma...7-Sunshine.pdf


However they do use a machine that is calibrated at 120W/2m

NYC's 2500 hours were derived from the foster (87W/2m), you can knock off 200 hours and that would still leave NYC with a 420 hours of more sunshine. That would be like a full summer month's worth of sunshine or more. That's pretty
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