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Perhaps the Spanish one should be compared Mendoza, Argentina.
Mendoza is sunnier and drier than both, with only 220mm (8 inches)
precip, similiar highs, cooler lows.
Yes it could be a better comparison, but I based my comparison only on their names being identical. I was inspired by the thread Perth vs Perth.
Yes it could be a better comparison, but I based my comparison only on their names being identical. I was inspired by the thread Perth vs Perth.
Ah, yes. That one was amusing. I was unaware that the more well-known Perth was the evil twin of a snowy Scottish climate (just kidding, but the Perth one is much superior relative to my climatic requirements).
Also, I have found quite a great deal of subtropical and tropical climates with low sunshine hours...
Florianópolis, Brazil: 2010 hours clima
Rio de Janeiro: 2084.7 hours Rio de Janeiro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lima, Peru (an extreme case), according to Wikipedia has 1284 hours only!
And then there are the others, like Miami, Los Angeles, etc., with very high sunshine hours.
wow, thats a great page,sanfel!
I cant believe Rio sunshine hours are so low!!! A city that is known as a beach touristic destination! Im shocked!
Plus, Florianopolis too. Wow! And only 1707 for Sao Paolo?
I knew that Lima had very low sunshine hours, but those two brazilians cities completely shocked me!
RWood, im kinda glad to see Mar del Plata haves those numbers. Cause in some threads here a while ago it was said Mar del Plata had around 2700 sunshine hours, and, having lived in MDP for 20 years and in Buenos Aires for 8 years i thought i was crazy cause i was SURE Buenos Aires was way sunnier than Mar del Plata. I even ask my bf (who also was born in MDP and now lives here), what city he thought was sunny after living in both of them and he said "definetely BA, by far!". So, it seemed really weird to me than MDP supposedly had more sunshine hours than BA....that doesnt make sense if you lived in both cities. Actually, in MDP to get 7 or 10 straight days of sun in summer vacations is a lotery while in Buenos Aires....well, just look at october/november/january stats, with entire months with almost complete sunshine. Completely different story.
Those 1900 hours for MDP and almost 2500 for BA make so much more sense, so thanks!
Rio's total may be partly due the significant hills bordering the main part of the city. Brasilia is much better at 2334, similarly Vitoria, Porto Alegre and Salvador.
Thanks RWood! I was actually trying to find data for Salta cause i really cant believe those numbers, and couldnt.
Anyways, i used a calculator to add up all those numbers you presented and the result was 2334 hours, not 1800. If thats true, is certainly not as sunny as i thought, but its also not cloudy as 1800!!! That sunshine hours sound considerably low, specially knowing where Salta is located (in an extremely sunny zone in the country, maybe the sunniest?)
also add the San Juan sunshine hours and it gave me 3347, I wonder how much hours cafayate haves.
Actually, no. Salta it's located into the Calchaqui's valley, where east humid winds are obstaculized by the Andes and then, ascend cooling and generating clouds instantly over the city.
In contrast, Cafayate is in the middle of the Puna in the Andes, which block any posibility of humid air from Brazil and the tropics. It's the phenomen called as a "rain shadow"
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A city that is known as a beach touristic destination! Im shocked!
