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View Poll Results: Kochi vs Recife
Kochi, India 9 56.25%
Recife, Brazil 7 43.75%
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Old 04-12-2012, 09:09 AM
 
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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

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Old 04-12-2012, 09:16 AM
 
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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.
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Old 04-12-2012, 09:23 AM
 
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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
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Old 04-12-2012, 09:45 AM
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Kochi is much cooler than Recife as I can tell from the colors wikipedia gave its weather box.
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Old 04-12-2012, 09:48 AM
 
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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
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Old 04-12-2012, 11:08 AM
 
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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.
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Old 04-12-2012, 03:46 PM
 
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Kochi looks good.

Plenty of rain and a significant dry season that is pretty dry.
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Old 04-12-2012, 05:00 PM
 
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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.
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Old 04-12-2012, 08:16 PM
 
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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.
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Old 04-16-2012, 07:00 AM
 
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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.
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