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Paris = Portland, OR
Brussels = Seattle, WA
Amsterdam or London = Vancouver, BC
Rome = Sacramento
Barcelona or Marseille = San Jose, CA
Agreed on all these. However:
Athens' closest climate equivalent is San Bernardino, not Los Angeles. Los Angeles has a milder climate than Athens.
Berlin doesn't have a lot of good climate equivalents within the U.S. There are some places in Appalachia that come close, but only at high elevations. Which I feel is comparing apples to oranges because Berlin is near sea level.
Bern has a very similar climate to Boone, North Carolina. Providence has hotter summers.
Geneva has colder winters than Eugene. There are some mountain towns east of Portland, like Hood River, that are sort of similar, though it has a very dry summer.
Helsinki is quite a bit warmer than Anchorage. Within the U.S., the closest match is Eastport, Maine.
Moscow is much colder than Chicago. IMO the city with the most similar climate to Moscow is Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, though some towns in northern New England and New York might come a little closer.
Munich has much cooler summers than Boston. It kinda sorta reminds me of Moscow, Idaho, but you'd have to overlook the dry summers with high diurnal ranges.
Zermatt is pretty close to Aspen in terms of precipitation and winter temps, but it's cooler in the summer. Crater Lake, Oregon is a pretty close match in terms of temperatures with the caveat that it is much wetter, especially in winter. Overall, I couldn't find a lot of great matches.
My first Christmas spent at Catania, Sicily was quite warm. 65F mid afternoon. Short sleeve shirt weather. Longitude wise, it lines up near with Norfolk, VA.
None of the Pacific Northwest comparisons work, because the PNW combines Oceanic temperatures with a Mediterranean precipitation pattern. Northwest Europe doesn't have that at all -- summers are equally moist as winters, sometimes more so.
The real problem with these comparisons is that North America is a whole continental landmass, whereas Europe is really just the western appendage sticking off of Eurasia. The East Coast analogues would all be in East Asia, not Europe.
But there again, Eurasia is a much larger continent than North America, with very different topography/mountain chains. So there will never be truly good analogues.
Athens' closest climate equivalent is San Bernardino, not Los Angeles. Los Angeles has a milder climate than Athens.
Berlin doesn't have a lot of good climate equivalents within the U.S. There are some places in Appalachia that come close, but only at high elevations. Which I feel is comparing apples to oranges because Berlin is near sea level.
Bern has a very similar climate to Boone, North Carolina. Providence has hotter summers.
Geneva has colder winters than Eugene. There are some mountain towns east of Portland, like Hood River, that are sort of similar, though it has a very dry summer.
Helsinki is quite a bit warmer than Anchorage. Within the U.S., the closest match is Eastport, Maine.
Moscow is much colder than Chicago. IMO the city with the most similar climate to Moscow is Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, though some towns in northern New England and New York might come a little closer.
Munich has much cooler summers than Boston. It kinda sorta reminds me of Moscow, Idaho, but you'd have to overlook the dry summers with high diurnal ranges.
Zermatt is pretty close to Aspen in terms of precipitation and winter temps, but it's cooler in the summer. Crater Lake, Oregon is a pretty close match in terms of temperatures with the caveat that it is much wetter, especially in winter. Overall, I couldn't find a lot of great matches.
Yeah, a lot of these don't really have any perfect counterparts due to the higher temperature range of many North American cities compared to European ones. Geneva, for example, would be like Santa Barbara, CA in the summer and Washington, DC in the winter though I settled for Eugene, OR as a year-round "representative".
The pacific coast, Midwest, and northeastern USA has equivalents in Europe since it has a mix of Dfa, Dfb, Cfa, Cfb, Csb, and Csa climates. The southwestern and southeastern USA have no equivalents in Europe.
In all honesty, the USA has a climate more identical to China with more comfortable summer nights.
One comparison that is possible. Atlanta and Marseille can be similar when the interior south gets a hot dry summer.
Spending a weekend in Málaga during summer felt like going home to Georgia. Very uncharacteristically humid in comparison to the rest of Spain.
Obviously not 100 percent the same, but close enough. Boston in the summer is just a bit too hot for that comparison, and the winters are a smidge colder too of course. Also one place has a colder Spring with the other place having a colder autumn, but I suppose that evens out a bit.
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