Climate Battle: Philadelphia, PA vs. Redding, CA (warm, temperatures, rainfall)

[deneb78]

These two climates which are at close to the same latitude but at opposite ends of the US. Which do you choose?

Philadelphia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Redding, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I choose Redding for being warmer and sunnier year round.

[Candle]

Philadelphia without question, although I thought it was a little cooler in the summer there.

[Flight Simmer]

Redding, obviously. Not only is it my wet dream, but it has one of the best laitude to climate ratios in the world.

That being said, Philly's summers are very agreeable.

[Trimac20]

Those summer lows for Redding look wrong.

I'm actually gonna go with Philly. More variety/seasons.

[ADGreen]

Redding with a shadow of doubt. Incredible sunshine hours - a sun lovers paradise!

[Patricius Maximus]

I go with Philadelphia. It's cooler, but with the cruel exception of summer nights. Both of them are awful-looking to me.

[RWood]

Redding in a canter. Love that sun tally.

[sulkiercupid]

Redding has quite a remarkable sunshine to rainfall ratio!

I much prefer Philadelphia though, it's seasonal pattern, sunshine hours, temperatures and precipitation are close to ideal imo.

[dunno what to put here]

Philly of course

[george960]

According to the reference given on wikipedia here the sunshine percentages for Redding don't add up to me - how on earth can they get 73% of possible sunshine in January when the number of cloudy days is 17.8?

Anyway, I choose Philadelphia, even though the winters are too cold. I don't think Redding gets many thunderstorms, which is important to me.