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15-20°C, like most of the mediterranean cities, is good.
A smaller variation is good only in warm/hot climates (tropical or subtropical).
In cool climates it's a result of a cool summer, which I don't like.
If what this question is asking is for the difference between the average temperature of the warmest month and the average temperature of the coldest month, I'm going with 25C. Average of 25C in July and average of 0C in January.
In Buxton the range is from around -3/4 degrees in winter to +24 in summer. It never gets warm but it doesn't even get all that cold for the latitude.
The UK's climate would be immeasurably improved if it had significantly more continentality in the form of a wider spread of cold and warm temperatures, any time of year. A much bigger diurnal range with summer highs 2-4 degrees above current levels, winters would have more severe but briefer cold snaps but also more warm spells, but a similar average to current values. More like a NYC winter. A bit bipe. (bipolar). And the summer would be pretty consistent warmth by day, but with the odd cool night possible.
Temps in a typical year would range from -12°C to 35°C.
Temps in individual months would range a lot more than currently.
For example, take each month of the year and the new extreme low/high it would have:
Those would represent the average lowest and highest temperatures of each month, not the actual average low/high, which would obvisoualy be within those number.
I wonder if this refers to variation in average temps or extremes? If it's average temps than 35-45 C is optimal, if it's extremes then about 70-90 C is optimal. As you can see I like a lot of variation....
I wonder if this refers to variation in average temps or extremes? If it's average temps than 35-45 C is optimal, if it's extremes then about 70-90 C is optimal. As you can see I like a lot of variation....
Averages might be the limit of the scope set out by the OP but it is incomplete if we want a discussion about "How much temperature variation would you like?", because temperature variation is not restricted to seasonal differences between averages, but also day to day temperature variation, and extremes recorded in a particular month within a particular climate and set of averages.
So it is perfectly prudent to expand upon that as in my previous post.
Anybody can see the clear climatic differences between a place where the annual average range is say 20 degrees but the temperatures in each month hardly vary from their respective averages, and a another place with the same average range but temperatures in each month varying wildly from their respective averages.
The UK's climate bores me in that which the "average" seasonal range is acceptable for my liking, the extremes from the average are very homogeneous and I would prefer them widened considerably, it would certainly make the climate particularly more interesting, if for example, the annual mean in winter and summer might well be the same, but the average lows/highs wider apart, and extremes wider apart.
This would in effect bring about a considerable difference in the nature of the climate, despite having the same annual average temperature range - hence why I feel that this is entirely relevant and the question that is the subject of this thread is limit and incomplete otherwise.
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