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Comfort level is a personal preference that varies by individual. Some might consider high 50’s / low 60’s (getting down to the 40’s, or lower) “warm” in the winter months but I still consider that cool, bordering on chilly.
Weather was only one of of many reasons I gave for selecting Miami as my sunny city of choice. Not being a palm tree there are other criteria that I highlighted that also matter to me besides weather-which I have no issues with.
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Originally Posted by mkwensky
What you call warm most would call hot. It does not necessarily get hotter than Phoenix or Atlanta but southern Florida gets hot sooner and cools down later in the year than the other hot places, except for Texas.
Last edited by elchevere; 04-06-2022 at 09:25 AM..
These are the sunniest major cities in American, based on annual sunshine duration. Where would you most want to live?
Phoenix
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Miami
Denver
Oklahoma City
San Francisco
San Diego
Salt Lake City
Boise
Tampa
Dallas
Charlotte
I prefer to avoid most cities on the sunny list since I prefer clouds. San Francisco has the best weather of any city in that list but has it too many other problems. I pick San Diego as long as I stay west of the 5 freeway in the cooler zone by the ocean.
Phoenix, Tampa, Miami and Dallas are way too hot. I will take Cleveland, Milwaukee or Pittsburgh over any city that often hits 90 and above. I prefer 10 degrees over 90 degrees.
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Originally Posted by elchevere
Comfort level is a personal preference that varies by individual. Some might consider high 50’s / low 60’s (getting down to the 40’s, or lower) “warm” in the winter months but I still consider that cool, bordering on chilly.
I think the mid 60's are the maximum enjoyable temperature. Anything over 70 is too hot. San Francisco has great summer weather as long as one stays on the west side of the city.
I'm wondering where the OP got his/her list of cities. Albuquerque is always counted among America's sunniest major cities. In the list below on Wikipedia measuring sunshine duration for cities around the world, Albuquerque has 3,415 hours of sunshine per year.
Going by that list and counting a major city as one with more than 750,000 people in its metro area, the ranking of sunniest major cities in America is as follows (cities with more than 3,000 annual hours of sunshine):
3,872 - Phoenix
3,825 - Las Vegas
3,806 - Tucson
3,763 - El Paso
3,608 - Sacramento
3,564 - Fresno
3,415 - Albuquerque
3,254 - Los Angeles
3,154 - Miami
3,107 - Denver
3,089 - Oklahoma City
3,061 - San Francisco
3,055 - San Diego
3,036 - Honolulu
3,029 - Salt Lake City
Yuma, though not a major city, actually looks to be the sunniest city in America, with over 4,000 hours of sunshine a year.
I voted Boise to be more realistic.
San Diego would have worked eons ago, but not now.
Salt Lake City I want to like, but never feel comfortable there.
San Diego easily. Is nicely moderated by ocean currents and anyone still complaining it's too cold... wait until it's 2040 and it'll be plenty warm year round. There is hardly a bad day to be outside all year there.
San Francisco is not that sunny. Actually pretty terrible in the summer, windbreakers are almost a must anytime you head out even in August.
Los Angeles itself is just way too crowded, congested and polluted, but if you go a bit further say to Santa Barbara I can see it being an almost ideal place to live as well.
I think Phoenix, Miami and Las Vegas are just way too hot to live year round. Those are fall/winter destinations to me, and will be even more so when most of Southern USA gets even warmer.
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