which Bay Area city has the best weather? (San Jose, San Francisco: living in, to move)

[MaikeerinWA]

Redwood City, or so says the sign!

Best by Government Test

[Mach50]

Originally Posted by MichaelinWA

Redwood City, or so says the sign!

Best by Government Test

It's true, the weather in RWC is near perfect :P.

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by BeeGlee

I think the weather in any Santa Clara county city is usually ideal. The exception to this is Santa Cruz because it's on the water.

San Jose, Milpitas, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Los Gatos, Saratoga Campbell, Almaden etc. all have the same weather. It's usually mid 60s to low 80s during the Fall and Spring. It's 80+ from May to September. In the Winter it ranges between the 40s to the 60s and rains a lot.

That's generally true about the weather. But places like Milpitas and Mountain View average a few degrees cooler on summer afternoons than Campbell, Los Gatos & Saratoga. It can be particularly noticeable when there are heat waves. Often, Mountain View will be in the low to mid 80s while it can be 95+ in San Jose, Los Gatos, & Saratoga.

[silicagulcher]

Mountain View/Los Altos has a good mix of warm and not too hot and cool but not too cold.

The east bay right there just north and south of Berkeley is great however I found the sudden temp drop due to the rushing fog was just too radical for me.

I tend to tolerate slightly warmer weather than the slightly colder.

If you can live in a place where the temp can go from 80's to 50's in an hour near sun down then Berkeley/east bay is a great place.

Of course this is not the majority of the time, but it was frequently enough that I moved.

[US-Traveller]

My son was diagnosed with SAD a couple years ago. Apparently Chicago has the highest percentage of people suffering from SAD at over 10%. For him it is generally worst at the height of the winter and interestingly summer seasons, but a lot less pronounced in the summer.

I personally find the climate on the Peninsula to be very nice. To me the fog isn't a big deal. Almost everywhere I have lived has experienced dense fog at certain times or it has been smog. I find the SF Bay area climate to be quite nice anywhere, but the Peninsula or South Bay is the best for me.

[scrapart]

Cupertino and Palo alto are best in everything.....Highest Living Expenses, Good Schools, Great Competition, High Paying Jobs, Highest Salary, Large Asian community, Wonderful libraries....highly educated crowd.

[batransplant]

Can someone please tell me if the peninsula and the south bay get as much fog and gray clouds as the east bay areas of Lamorinda/Alamo? It seems the Lamorinda area is cloudy/gray from Oct. through April at least a few days per week.

Is this common throughout the entire bay area or just further north?

[Sparklez_304]

i would say milpitas.

[treedonkey]

Excluding San Francisco and the coastal towns, the differences are minimal. It's generally cooler near the Bay and warmer in the inland hills.

[mysticaltyger]

Originally Posted by batransplant

Can someone please tell me if the peninsula and the south bay get as much fog and gray clouds as the east bay areas of Lamorinda/Alamo? It seems the Lamorinda area is cloudy/gray from Oct. through April at least a few days per week.

Is this common throughout the entire bay area or just further north?

This is my best guess...I'd say the South Bay gets a little more winter sun than Lamorinda/Alamo, but not by a wide margin.

Believe it or not, the coastal parts of the Bay Area get slightly more sunshine in the winter than the inland areas. The further inland you go, the more overcast it gets, esp. in Dec & Jan (think Stockton & Sacramento).