View Poll Results: Which climate do you prefer?
San Francisco
17 37.78%
Melbourne
28 62.22%
04-25-2013, 06:59 AM
Location: Melbourne Australia
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Both are at the same latitude and both are influenced by cold ocean SSTs year round. Both 1981-2010 data.
*Melbourne's average annual sunshine hours are 2372 hours, record high and low is 46.4C and -2.8C respectively.
Melbourne
Climate statistics for Australian locations
San Francisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Climate
edit.. forgot to add a poll as per usual, a moderator please add from A to F
04-25-2013, 07:14 AM
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Summers in San Francisco are far too mild and dry, so my vote is for Melbourne by a comfortable margin.
04-25-2013, 07:24 AM
Location: South Jersey
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San Francisco win easily for me for its cooler summers.
04-25-2013, 07:48 AM
Location: Mid Atlantic USA
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Melbourne for me.
04-25-2013, 08:29 AM
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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its weird that the warmests months in SF are september and october
04-25-2013, 11:49 AM
Location: Philadelphia
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Melbourne, for hotter summers. SanFran is just too cool and overcast for me.
04-25-2013, 11:53 AM
Location: Buxton, England
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Overcast? San Francisco is much sunnier than Melbourne.
04-25-2013, 11:53 AM
Location: London
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Melbourne, it has more variety.
04-25-2013, 12:28 PM
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San Francisco. I prefer the Mediterranean rain pattern, and the lower summer highs.
04-25-2013, 01:25 PM
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Melbourne
Much better except for those record highs
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