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I can only speak for places I've actually lived in - which are not necessarily the best or worst in my country (not by a long-shot, I'm sure) - just the best and worst I've experienced in all 4 seasons. That being said, here are my choices for U.S. cities I've actually lived in and in which I've experienced at least 4 consecutive seasons:
Best: Sacramento, CA
Worst: Portland, OR
As for cities I have never lived in but have visited, well, I don't typically visit cities during their bad weather seasons, but my favorite city for good weather is San Diego, CA.
EDIT: San Francisco is another city that would be on my worst weather list for cities I've lived in - mainly because of the fog. I found it terribly gloomy for that reason alone. Portland is on that list because of all the rain and colder weather. If employment and family were not factors, I would prefer to live where it is mostly sunny and warm.
Last edited by Anikalana; 12-13-2014 at 10:52 AM..
Best: Honolulu. Stable warmth with no cold snaps, unlike South Florida. Also unlike South Florida, it can stay warm and moderately humid without ever getting oppressive. Honolulu also gets enough rainfall, IMO.
Worst: Barrow or San Francisco. San Francisco is so foggy a lot of the time, but gets very little rain. It's also more often than not cool and gloomy; kind of a boring climate. Barrow is awful just because it's extreme cold all year long. No thanks.
San Francisco's summer climate sucks in the city itself but you can get warmth with a short drive or ride on BART easily. Can't do that in Barrow ever.
Worst climate in the lower 48 would be the upper midwest or northern great plains for it's bitter cold winters or the Seattle area where you can literally go without seeing the sun for weeks on the end no matter what microclimate you go to. If I were forced to live in San Francisco, I'd spend all my summer days off in the inner East Bay for highs in the upper 80s on the average.
Best climate: the U.S. doesn't really have an A climates for me but it's a toss up between my own inland Orange County climate (for moderated temperatures with summers in the 80s and winters in the 60s but woefully lacks warm rain and thunderstorms in summer) and north to central Florida (lots of warm rain and thunderstorms in summer and winter sun with highs in the upper 60s) but summers are a bit too hot and humid and the winter cold snaps are a bit too strong when they happen not to mention the hurricane threat.
Worst: Southeast, too oppressive in the summer months and it never ends(Excluding the higher elevation parts of the Appalachians)
Best: The Entire Pacific Coast(San Diego, Northern California, and the Pacific Northwest) and places in the mountain states so to speak... Colorado, Utah, and so on.
I've been quite a few times in St-Etienne and the snow cover was sometimes quite impressive. Who needs more snow days when the snow cover lasts longer ? This is what I'm currently experiencing here.
Also, I think Cherbourg might be even worse than Brest.
An update from my earlier post in this thread in which I only included populated cities (now I include just about any places in Australia, populated or not):
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