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Corrected: Santa Maria is cooler* year round and much cooler during summers.
Santa Maria is light years away to be climatically similar to Malaga. Malaga has a Csa climate, Santa Maria a Csb one. That's a completely different climate! The summer temps of Santa Maria (highs) equal the ones of Malaga in mid-late April ...
Of course my vote goes to Malaga, one of the best climates of the world and the best on Europe in my opinion.
Of course Santa Maria. A cool summer Mediterrean climate>a hot summer one. Santa Maria, differently from other California coastal city is better in everything: it has a lower absolute minimum, a lower mean annual minimum, has cooler minima year round, lower maxima during summer (important with a city with a crappy winter like Santa Maria) and a lower absolute maximum. The only thing that is better in Malaga is precipitations. Anyway for a vacation I would of course go to Malaga, I prefer warm water over a cool/cold one.
Malaga.
In spite of it being hotter than Santa Maria, it is wetter and has a greater seasonal variation.
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