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Calama, Chile is an incredibly dry desert with very little seasonal variation and extreme diurnal range. It is also one of the sunniest places on earth. Daytime temperatures are pleasant throughout the year, and nighttime temperature are cold to freezing throughout the year.
All in all a pretty unique climate, extreme in many ways and utterly mundane in others so let's see what you think.
Personally, I would give it B+/A- or something like that. I would absolutely love having 20-26 degrees and sun pretty much every day of the year. I also wear glasses, so rain is really annoying. However, not being able to wear your day-time clothes later on in the evening would be pretty annoying, and I much prefer a humid vegetation look to a desert one.
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Interesting climate. Not sure how to rate this--it's extremely comfortable with loads of sun, little rain, low humidity and a high diurnal range. However, it's extremely stable, seasonless, and lacking in any interesting weather. It also probably has beautiful scenery with the mountains and the desert.
I guess I'll give it a D for being mind-numbingly boring but then it's so pleasant and has no undesirable weather.
Ok, D overall but A for spending a couple of months there.
That's the best desert climate around. As long as there is a solid supply of drinking water it may be one of the best highland climates in the world I love the daytime temps and the winter frosts are perfect for any allergies. Having said that, 15 C summer nights would be preferrable. Hopefully the air is not so bad at that altitude either. Above 2000 m is a bit fishy! But clearly an A.
D, too cold in the night year round, altho the highs are awesome
Shouldn't night be sleepytime anyways? Provided one doesn't sleep outdoors some 'clean the air frosts' shouldn't hurt that much so that awesome highs would plummet to a D?
Shouldn't night be sleepytime anyways? Provided one doesn't sleep outdoors some 'clean the air frosts' shouldn't hurt that much so that awesome highs would plummet to a D?
The low can affect how comfortable you are/how well you sleep at night. I love cold nights as they are very comfortable around sleep in and I love the cool mornings. However, someone like him may hate to be cold at night and won't want to use a lot of heating to ensure he sleeps well.
Shouldn't night be sleepytime anyways? Provided one doesn't sleep outdoors some 'clean the air frosts' shouldn't hurt that much so that awesome highs would plummet to a D?
If you're in Chile you are not going to be sleeping during the night. Hope you like walking back to your house at 4am in -5 degree weather! Lol
Judging by Weatherspark (https://weatherspark.com/history/335...ofagasta-Chile) it seems Calama is actually warm from about 11-12.00 to 21-23.00, so it's the mornings that are cold, never the evenings. I think that's pretty fine actually since you usually don't go outside before 12.00 anyways except when going to work.
The low can affect how comfortable you are/how well you sleep at night. I love cold nights as they are very comfortable around sleep in and I love the cool mornings. However, someone like him may hate to be cold at night and won't want to use a lot of heating to ensure he sleeps well.
Generally speaking in my house, 10C overnight lows are ideal for sleep. But it won't affect it badly until maybe -10C, then you start freezing really badly. In this case, frequent -1C winter lows in mornings shouldn't be a problem.
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I love the daytime temps and the winter frosts are perfect for any allergies. Having said that, 15 C summer nights would be preferrable. Hopefully the air is not so bad at that altitude either. Above 2000 m is a bit fishy! But clearly an A.
