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23°F - 106°F (83°F temperature spread). Quito, Ecuador has a higher temperature range than any climate on the list. compare that to Valparaiso, Chile with a temperature range of about 50°F (hard to tell with no record highs, Antofagasta's record high is 86°F so i reckon Valparaiso's would be around 80°F). I wouldn't pick Valparaiso though, all around too cool for me... but some might like it. Even the hated Durban, South Africa only has a 67°F temperature range...
Last edited by Sir Goosenseresworthie; 03-09-2015 at 05:59 PM..
23°F - 106°F (83°F temperature spread). Quito, Ecuador has a higher temperature range than any climate on the list. compare that to Valparaiso, Chile with a temperature range of about 50°F (hard to tell with no record highs, Antofagasta's record high is 86°F so i reckon Valparaiso's would be around 80°F). I wouldn't pick Valparaiso though, all around too cool for me... but some might like it. Even the hated Durban, South Africa only has a 67°F temperature range...
I was making a silly joke. Also, I was going by average days, not records (which rarely happen anyway.)
Plus, I said the mildest on the list was Valparaiso.
Some very dry places (or places that get so little rain) can be humid. The air of coastal LA isn't desert dry - RH can be as high as 50% most of the time in the dry summer.
Many of the so-called mild desert climates can still have high humidity due to fog, including Lima, Peru.
Personally, I don't consider a daytime temperature in the 60s to be mild or desirable. I used to live in San Diego, and we had one summer in 2010 where a La Nina completely destroyed our summer at the beach, where it basically was mid 60s the entire summer. And EVERYONE complained, obviously tourists but locals too. No one liked it, I wouldn't want to live in such a place where I need a coat during the day in the summer. And that was San Diego, you can go inland if you want for 80s/90s, and of course when your summer is over you're not going to have a winter in the form the rest of the country experiences. But it still was terrible.
So I decided to refine your criteria, I decided to call 75-85F as a desirable range for daytime highs. And 55-65F for overnight and lows, and then I calculated for a bunch of American cities their variance from this (almost similar to a mathematical variance but instead of using a mean I'm using these ranges and other subtleties). I plugged Medellin Colombia into my formula just to have a non US city and it got an index of 0 (0 is perfect). Some of these results seem common sense, others are surprising to conventional wisdom.
1)Los Angeles, CA (5.57)
2)Orlando, FL (6.78)
3)Honolulu, HI (7.26)
4)Tampa, FL (7.44)
5)San Diego, CA (7.72)
6)Miami, FL (8.68)
7)Miami Beach, FL (9.17)
8)Jacksonville, FL (9.33)
9)Santa Monica, CA (9.56)
10)New Orleans, LA (9.83)
11)Houston, TX (10.5)
12)Oakland, CA (11.76)
13)Austin, TX (11.79)
14)San Jose, CA (12.19)
15)San Antonio, TX (12.83)
16)San Francisco, CA (13.6)
17)Dallas, TX (15.01)
18)Fort Worth, TX (15.99)
19)Phoenix, AZ (16.19)
20)Atlanta, GA (16.43)
21)Las Vegas, NV (16.94)
22)Washington, DC (22.92)
23)Seattle, WA (22.93)
24)Philadelphia, PA (25.66)
25)New York City, NY (26.34)
26)Boston, MA (30.08)
27)Denver, CO (31.62)
28)Chicago, IL (31.81)
29)Detroit, MI (32.87)
30)Minneapolis, MN (40.66)
31)Anchorage, AK (47.28)
32)Barrow, AK (84.76)
@SDPMiami thanks for your post i thought it was interesting.
so yea I happen to agree with you. i think the perfect day is a high of 80°F/27°C and a low of 65°F/18°C, tons of sunshine, moderate humidity 60-70% and maybe a short thunderstorm at around 2PM.
we get a lot of those days this time of year in Florida, though it doesn't last and soon the 90°F weather will be here
however i also understand that 80°F/27°C is not really "mild". mild is in between cool and warm. people like you and me like warm weather. so for the sake of this thread i think a daytime high of 70°F/21°C and a low of 60°F/16°C is closer to the most "mild" day. with 65°F/18°C being considered the most mild temperature. this is my understanding of mild so if you guys disagree feel free to mention your point of view on mild.
i wouldn't pick MedellÃn as a perfect climate though for a number of reasons. aside from the fact that its quite rainy and cloudy i tend to avoid tropical highland because i imagine low latitude + high elevation = bad sunburn.
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