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View Poll Results: Which one do you prefer?
Madrid, Spain 12 42.86%
Clermont-Ferrand, France 16 57.14%
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Old 08-03-2014, 08:16 PM
 
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Madrid.

Warmer winters and assuming less 'oceanic'.

The other one looks like it can get a lot of drizzly/cloudy days despite its 'dryness'...
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Old 08-03-2014, 09:13 PM
 
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Clermont-Ferrand. Cooler summers and wetter.
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Old 08-03-2014, 10:01 PM
 
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Clermont-Ferrand for being cooler.
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Old 08-04-2014, 06:31 AM
 
Location: Phoenix
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Madrid much better. Clermont only warms enough to enjoy the outside 5 months versus Madrid 7 months.
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Old 08-04-2014, 06:39 AM
 
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Madrid. Warmer summer and milder winter. But I dont like darkness at 7am in August.
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Old 08-04-2014, 09:05 AM
 
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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It gets 1913 hours of sun per year, ranging between 249 in July and 69 hours in December.
It's not a glomiest city at all, as the "Chaine of Puys" mountain range works very well by burning off most of the clouds coming from the Atlantic ocean.
I guess it would be much glomier somewhere on western slopes of "Massif Central" mountains.

Madrid Barajas airport gets 2769 sunshine hours per year, ranging between 124 in December and 359 in July.
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Old 08-04-2014, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Paris
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Actually the mountains are effective in reducing rain totals, but they're not tall enough to break clouds apart.

Limoges, located about 150 km to the west at the same latitude, has similar sunshine levels (1900 hours) but much higher rainfall (1024 mm):
CLIMAT %%% par Météo-France - Normales et relevés sur la station de %%%

The Atlantic coast is sunnier than both.

Is the NW side of the sierra de Guadarrama much gloomier than the SE side? Looks like Segovia gets 2480 hours over the 1971-2000 period, but the mountains are higher than the Chaîne des Puys.
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Old 08-04-2014, 09:48 AM
 
Location: Segovia, central Spain, 1230 m asl, Csb Mediterranean with strong continental influence, 40º43 N
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Actually the mountains are effective in reducing rain totals, but they're not tall enough to break clouds apart.

Limoges, located about 150 km to the west at the same latitude, has similar sunshine levels (1900 hours) but much higher rainfall (1024 mm):
CLIMAT %%% par Météo-France - Normales et relevés sur la station de %%%

The Atlantic coast is sunnier than both.

Is the NW side of the sierra de Guadarrama much gloomier than the SE side? Looks like Segovia gets 2480 hours over the 1971-2000 period, but the mountains are higher than the Chaîne des Puys.
Yes, the NW side of it is glommier than the SE all year round. In summer, the NW side is a bit prone to convective clouds, whereas the rest of the year is a bit prone to winter orographic low stratus clouds when northwesterlies blows into this area.

I guess my town is even way glommier than Segovia city, but we haven't any sunshine reliable data at all.
There is not a big difference, though.
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Old 08-04-2014, 10:28 AM
 
Location: Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
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The French city has moderate temperatures.
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Old 08-04-2014, 10:46 AM
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Location: Ontario
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Clermont for the coolness.
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