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London definitely doesn't have the worst climate of any big city in the world. When you consider that it is at 51*N, it's 15/23C summer averages are decent and winters certainly warm for the latitude. You have many, many locations much closer to the equator with cooler summers. Winters at most places around 51*N are borderline fatal if you are not covered up in layers of heavy clothing. Yes it's cloudy, yes it has tons of that drizzly wet crap but really for the latitude it is not bad at all.
Moscow is one climate at a similar latitude that is infinitely worse than London...
IMO The city in the world over a million people with the worst climate in the world would be St. Petersburg. I don't really see anything redeemable about this climate - long cold winters, relatively anemic summers, low sunshine hours, few thunderstorms etc. Saint Petersburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I don't think London, or other Central European cities like Amsterdam, see any more thunderstorms than St. Pete. Most likely less. Though it's in the far eastern bay of the Gulf of Finland and see less sun than other coastal cities, its not especially gloomy on European standards.
Summers can be lousy, both in London and St. Pete. And Vancouver or Amsterdam or Berlin, true as well.
Or quite good. This July had an avg hi/lo of 25.8C/16.6C with 335 sunshine hours.
Anyway, I think there are both worse climates out there than London or St. Petersburg.
No. London has the most misunderstood and stereotyped climate of any big city in the world. It's probably the warmest city of it's latitude on the planet, one of the driest cities in Europe, and the comment about the number of drizzly, windy days is just plain wrong, it gets less rainfall duration than many European or US cities.
Oslo worse than London? No way Oslo is slighter sunnier and you can look forward to summer and winter, because you'll actually get a winter and the summers are not much different between the two
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Oslo is slighter sunnier and you can look forward to summer and winter, because you'll actually get a winter and the summers are not much different between the two
