Climate Battle: Kochi, India vs. Recife, Brazil (warm, average, temperature)

[theunbrainwashed]

For all the heat lovers on here, I chose 2 cities that are very close in latitude to each other. One is 8.1°S while the other is 9.9°N. Both are coastal locations that receive very heavy rainfall and show very little temperature variation year round. Which one shall you pick?

Kochi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Recife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

*Sunshine hours for Kochi are 2244. http://www.audleytravel.com/Destinat...n/Climate.aspx

[Superluminal]

Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed

For all the heat lovers on here, I chose 2 cities that are very close in latitude to each other. One is 8.1°S while the other is 9.9°N. Both are coastal locations that receive very heavy rainfall and show very little temperature variation year round. Which one shall you pick?

Kochi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Recife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

*Unfortunately, no sunshine data listed for Kochi

Kochi, the dry season is longer and more noticeable than Recife's. Probably sunnier too.

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by Superluminal

Kochi, the dry season is longer and more noticeable than Recife's. Probably sunnier too.

I got the sunshine hours. It's broken down per month on the other website but if you multiply and add them up it's equal to 2244 hours.

As for me, I picked Kochi for the harder rains to balance the very high temps

[nei]

Kochi is much cooler than Recife as I can tell from the colors wikipedia gave its weather box.

[theunbrainwashed]

Originally Posted by nei

Kochi is much cooler than Recife as I can tell from the colors wikipedia gave its weather box.

Average annual high for both cities is 86°F and the range for both is 82-88. That's why I always look at the numbers, not the colors. The colors are not always the same for all cities

[CairoCanadian]

I like Kochi a bit better for being cloudier and rainier and having a longer period of lower highs ( albeit with warmer lows than ideal year-round ). Still, it's a fairly nice tropical climate; I wouldn't suffer in either.

[Candle]

Kochi looks good.

Plenty of rain and a significant dry season that is pretty dry.

[dxnerd86]

Both are F's, but I'll go for Kochi because of the better defined wet and dry seasons (and it's wetter overall too). At least you'd get a semblance of a break from the humidity in the dry.

[deneb78]

This is a real tough one.. but I'll have to give the edge to Recife... quite a bit drier.. Kochi's wet season looks a bit over the top and a bit sunnier as well.

[munna21977]

Kochi is very humid. I remember one has to take shower before sleeping at night as well as in morning and still one will feel sweat all over the body. and that was in december.