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Note: all personal preferences overall.. cities in the same tier may have vastly different climates but overall similar tolerability. Only rating places I've visited or lived even if it's not for the whole year.
S-Tier
- San Diego, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Santa Barbara, CA
A-Tier
- Honolulu, HI
- San Jose, CA
- Sacramento, CA
- Barcelona, Spain
- Avignon, France
B-Tier
- Midland, TX
- Inland Empire, CA
- San Francisco, CA (city proper)
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Paris, France
- Dallas, TX
- Washington, DC
- Orlando, FL
- Las Vegas, NV
- Phoenix, AZ
- Coos Bay, OR
C-Tier
- Boston, MA
- Portland, OR
- Seattle, WA
- Denver, CO
- NYC
- Xi'an, China
- Weifang, China
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Vienna, Austria
- Austin, TX
- Miami, FL
- Nashville, TN
- St. Louis, MO
D-Tier
- Detroit, MI
- Breckenridge, CO
- Spokane, WA
- Chicago, IL
- Beijing, China
F-Tier
- Minneapolis, MN
- Buffalo, NY
- Rochester, NY
- Hong Kong
Dallas gets an A+ from me. Terrible D way too hot climate to live in, but I like monitoring it so much that the monitoring A+ overrides the live in D.
The same goes for Austin, although to a bit lesser extent because it is not the cream of the crop of my monitoring that Dallas is.
All the humid continental climates, particularly Minneapolis, get an A for me to live in and monitor (though less than the above).
Everything else ranges from B to F because they are not ideal and don't have enough or any monitoring fun to make up for it.
Note: all personal preferences overall.. cities in the same tier may have vastly different climates but overall similar tolerability. Only rating places I've visited or lived even if it's not for the whole year.
S-Tier
- San Diego, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Santa Barbara, CA
A-Tier
- Honolulu, HI
- San Jose, CA
- Sacramento, CA
- Barcelona, Spain
- Avignon, France
B-Tier
- Inland Empire, CA
- San Francisco, CA (city proper)
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Paris, France - Portland, OR
- Seattle, WA
- Coos Bay, OR
C-Tier
- Boston, MA - Dallas, TX
- Midland, TX
- Washington, DC
- Orlando, FL
- Denver, CO
- NYC
- Xi'an, China
- Weifang, China
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Vienna, Austria
- Austin, TX
- Miami, FL
- Nashville, TN
- St. Louis, MO
D-Tier
- Detroit, MI
- Breckenridge, CO
- Spokane, WA
- Chicago, IL
- Beijing, China - Las Vegas, NV
- Phoenix, AZ
F-Tier
- Minneapolis, MN
- Buffalo, NY
- Rochester, NY
- Hong Kong
I generally agree with this, however I'd move Vegas and Phoenix down to D tier due to the extreme summer heat and dryness. Midland, Dallas, DC, and Orlando should be C tier IMO. I'd move Portland and Seattle up to B tier (if Paris is B, they should be B).
I generally agree with this, however I'd move Vegas and Phoenix down to D tier due to the extreme summer heat and dryness. Midland, Dallas, DC, and Orlando should be C tier IMO. I'd move Portland and Seattle up to B tier (if Paris is B, they should be B).
To be honest, Paris and Portland are kinda straddling the B-C divide though ultimately, the tie breaker came from the following:
- Portland also sees more extreme weather even though its averages are similar to Paris. You in recent years, heat waves of 100+ temps lasting several days and even piercing 110 have become regular occurrences. Yes, Paris also gets heat waves too though it usually doesn't get back to back 100+ days. And Portland also occasionally gets nor'easter-like snowstorms which Paris almost never gets (I think they've gotten a max of ~6in of snow at once.)
Below is OP's list of places, but rearranged according to my preferences. Note that the lists within each tier are simply in alphabetical order:
S-Tier
- Honolulu (Manoa and other similar microclimates)
A-Tier
- Hong Kong
- Miami, FL
- Orlando, FL
B-Tier
- Barcelona, Spain
- Honolulu, HI (at the central city/airport area)
- Los Angeles, CA
- San Diego, CA
- Santa Barbara, CA
- San Jose, CA
- Sacramento, CA
- San Francisco, CA (city proper)
- Coos Bay, OR
C-Tier
- Avignon, France
- Austin, TX
- Dallas, TX
- Inland Empire, CA
- Nashville, TN
- Paris, France
- Portland, OR
- Seattle, WA
D-Tier
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Beijing, China
- Boston, MA
- Buffalo, NY
- Chicago, IL
- Denver, CO
- Detroit, MI
- Las Vegas, NV
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Midland, TX
- NYC
- Phoenix, AZ
- Rochester, NY
- Spokane, WA
- St. Louis, MO
- Vienna, Austria
- Washington, DC
- Weifang, China
- Xi'an, China
- Zurich, Switzerland
A Tier - London, Paris, Berlin, New York, Portland (Cooler climates with nice, warm (not too hot but not weak), sunny summers)
B Tier - Melbourne, Chicago, Tokyo, Moscow (Melbourne a little bit mild, Chicago a little too cold, Tokyo doesn't dip enough in night, Moscow a little too cold in winter but perfect summer)
C Tier - Washington DC, Istanbul, Sydney, Nashville, Los Angeles (DC and Nashville perfect winters but too hot and humid summers, Istanbul winters are too warm winters but great summers, LA and Sydney perfect summers but winters are way too mild)
D Tier - Oslo, Jacksonville, Glasgow, San Francisco. (Oslo and Glasgow have great winters but pathetic cold summers, San Francisco too mild year round, Jacksonville's summers too hot and winters too mild but liveable
E Tier - Yellowknife, Alice Springs, Tehran, Mecca, Dubai, Bangkok, Singapore, Reykjavik, Nuuk, Bogota, Lima (All terrible but you could at least survive in them)
F Tier (The Worst of the Worst) Dallol, Vorstok, Kuwait City, Antarctica (Worst climates ever)
[quote=ragnarkar;65026924]Note: all personal preferences overall.. cities in the same tier may have vastly different climates but overall similar tolerability. Only rating places I've visited or lived even if it's not for the whole year.
S-Tier
- San Diego, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Santa Barbara, CA
Please define what you mean by "S-Tier", as the other A-F make sense, and they sound like school grades. Thanks.
Note: all personal preferences overall.. cities in the same tier may have vastly different climates but overall similar tolerability. Only rating places I've visited or lived even if it's not for the whole year.
S-Tier
- San Diego, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Santa Barbara, CA
Please define what you mean by "S-Tier", as the other A-F make sense, and they sound like school grades. Thanks.
Look at the S-tier link.
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