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I prefer central Germany and Poland at those latitudes. They're a bit warmer in summer and get colder and snowier winters. And they're a bit sunnier than London.
London is sunnier than Warsaw. Portsmouth is sunnier than anywhere in Germany, and probably Poland too.
I think the summer temperatures in San Diego are good for their latitude if you are a cool lover. Also the winter highs are mild. Are there any other 30 degrees latitude climates with 20-25C summer highs? I don't think so.
I think the summer temperatures in San Diego are good for their latitude if you are a cool lover. Also the winter highs are mild. Are there any other 30 degrees latitude climates with 20-25C summer highs? I don't think so.
Yes a number of them... here are two that have cool summers for their latitude:
Seattle and Portland have nice mild winters for their latitude. With Eureka and San Francisco, that statement is true for summers too and upgrades to warm winters.
Although the middle part of the Sahara is typical for its latitude, the southern third is nice and dry and northern third both dry and warm for their latitudes. Heck, the northernmost point of Africa is further north than anywhere in Arizona, New Mexico or Oklahoma!
Either or both statements can be applied to most of Europe, depending on where you are.
China's humid subtropical zone would probably be nicer than North America's, as it has drier (so probably sunnier too) winters and is less prone to volatile cold snaps.
Pretty much anywhere in the temperate and subtropical Southern Hemisphere would be nice compared to non-African/European climates in the Northern Hemisphere at that latitude, and in some cases (e.g. Auckland, Melbourne, Perth) far nicer than even their African/European equivalents.
I must also say, even Death Valley (the hottest place in the world) would probably be pretty livable thanks to low humidity, as long as you were really, REALLY careful in any non-winter month. It's so low, far west and intensely rain-shadowed that it's probably nicer than most upper subtropical latitude climates.
I laugh at the obsession with “cold snaps”.
Most people care about average and median conditions, not extremes.
In China’s subtropical zones, cold snaps from Siberia still dump snow and cold temps in winter. It’s a region that also features colder temperatures on average, with much colder mean maximums than the subtropical regions of the US sees in winter.
Ergo, the US’s subtropical climate is much more preferable.
Turku, Finland has a relatively mild climate for such a far north location. Compared to the same areas in Canada for example at 60N and above and the contrast is huge.
I live in the East Bay, just one degree of latitude south of where I lived in DC, and summers are far less humid, no bugs, you can get beach days in February, and every kind of tree imaginable grows here.
I don't mind living in Texas, but I wouldn't call its climate good for its latitude. Houston weather would be perfect for me if the springs and falls were the same, and winters were 5 degrees warmer and summer's were 5 degrees cooler, and we had a solid USDA Zone 9b or even 10a without this ridiculous artic nonsense where 8b palms get fried!
That Houston would have a "good" climate for its latitude. What I described seems similar to Orlando/Cape Canaveral. Its latitude isn't all that different from Houston southern suburbs.
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