Climate Battle: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada vs. Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

[Anhityk]

Neither of these are A climates, only nicely warm enough summers prevent them to be climatological hellholes with Ottawa being B and the Japanese city D. Ottawa is more acceptable as those cold winters type of Japanese places tend to be almost ridiculously snowy. If there is too much snow (like it was eg here in winters of 2010 and 2011) -well, there is not anything good in it, it causes tons and tons of troubles in traffic and so one.As a cold winter climate inhabitant I think I know about what I am talking about. With regard to winters I'd always choose rather colder temperatures instead of enormous amounts of snow, even this one>: Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[srfoskey]

Ottawa for having less snow. Asahikawa's 300" is a bit ridiculous.

I consider Ottawa a C climate and Asahikawa a C- climate.

[muslim12]

both are climatic hellholes but Ottawa looks extremely beautiful.

[Mr.Sir]

Ottawa, because Asahikawa has a bit of an overkill problem when it comes to snow. Also Ottawa is sunnier, and sun feels very good when it is cold

[MuffinMan16]

Asahikawa, partly because of it's great location compared to Ottawa and I'll take that snowfall total if I'm able to ski/snowboard and snowmobile every winter and as often as possible. I could also eat great ramen to warm me up when it's chilly! Hokkaido looks beautiful by the way.

[trsn]

It's a really tough choice. Asahikawa has much much more snow but I don't know if it's worth giving up so much sun for that. I still need to think about it.

[Bisfbath]

Originally Posted by Ethereal

Ottawa is at least sunnier and much less humid in the summer.

Japanese climates are extremely horrible. They make Canada look like California.

I don't think that's true, there's a small overlap but Japan is generally considerably warmer than Canada.

[deneb78]

Originally Posted by Bisfbath

I don't think that's true, there's a small overlap but Japan is generally considerably warmer than Canada.

Canada can't come anywhere close to matching this awesome Japanese climate IMO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishiga...kinawa#Climate

Ottawa is actually one of the better Canadian climates while Asahikawa is one of the worst Japanese ones IMO. This is actually one of the few areas of overlap.

[Eman Resu VIII]

Ottawa is a bit better but winters are still far far far far far, far, far too cold.