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Best: I would say somewhere like Darwin. Sunny, has a nice dry season and a fantastic wet season with huge thunderstorms. Warm enough to grow pretty much any tropical plant you desire. The nearby Tiwi Islands feature an almost daily occurrence of a stationary thunderstorm called "Hector" during the wet season, which can reach heights of 60,000ft. It is caused by seabreeze convergence.
Worst: THose subarctic highland holes like Quito, La Paz etc. Lowland.... definitely Lima. Same latitude as Darwin, yet has summer high temps nearly identical to Melbourne (and without the heatwaves mind you), winter temps resembling coastal NSW, no thunderstorms, very little variation in temps and sunshine resembling Scotland.
73-80 F SSTs are "too cold to swim in"? Seriously? Miami is barely warmer than that.
80f is my threshold for swimming which is why I don't swim in Miami until may or June. but unlike Miami those places never crack 80f. and miami does get much warmer water in the summer than they do with 86f water being the norm.
my favorite tropical climates are the 3 season ones like Kolkata and Bhubaneswar in fact if I could have kolkata's temps with Bhubaneswar rainfall and sunshine it would be a perfect A++++ climate. I would have the pleasantly warm and dry winters, with the scorching hot spring during which water shortages are common and wildfires break out and cover the area in a smoky hellish landscape. Then comes the somewhat cooler summer with Heavy Monsoon Storms which cause massive flooding, hail, damaging winds, and even a few tornadoes. hurricanes would strike every 1 to 2 years causing further destruction. And finally, in November residents would get the respite from all the natural disasters I've put them through over the last 8 months. that would be my perfect tropical climate
They may not have a 'tropical climate' but they're still in the tropics.
The worst: Most of them really, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bali, Bangkok, Darwin, Recife, Denpasar, Kinshasa....(pretty much those that are 28C all year round and have tons of rain - yuck)
The Hawaiian Islands have one of the best tropical climates in the globe. Several other Pacific islands too, French Polynesia, Fiji, Cook Islands, New Caledonia.
I was born and raised in Panama City, Panama, 9 degrees N of the Equator. It was horrendous.
If maintaining a strict thermal definition (warmest month >= 18C), and disregarding rainfall, the ones I like the best are those that average 22C or below in meteorological winter and 29C or below in hottest month, and with between 1000 and 2500 mm of rainfall annually. The worst are those with semi-arid or arid designation (with the caveat record lows exceed 10C), and/or average a high of 30C+ in all months (AND with a dry season), and/or have record highs eclipsing 40C.
Examples of best: Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Dongfang Hainan, MedellÃn, Caracas.
Examples of worst: Honolulu, Darwin NT, Mumbai, locations deep within Congolese/Amazon jungle.
I am not a big tropical climate lover.. I would say best is Rio de Janeiro though, for not getting too hot, and staying warm in 'winter' as well. Although not tropical, Canary Islands are very nice for me.. they have an almost tropical like temperature pattern
Worst.. places in the Amazon and India that get too hot and humid, and wet.
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