Climate battle: El Paso vs Cairo (snow, hot, warm, ice)

[FrozenI69]

Both have extremely hot summers but mild winters with low humidity pretty much guaranteed year round. Which one would be preferred by you ?

Cairo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo

El Paso:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso,_Texas

I’d probably go with El Paso because there are mountains in New Mexico that are nearby, which remain cooler in the summer.

[Isleofpalms85]

El Paso for having more scenery and for being wetter than Cairo, both are horrendous climates though.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Cairo easily, warmer winter and dry sunny summer

[BMI]

El Paso for sure


Has a "rainy season" and more interesting weather than Cairo.


But still gets tons of sunshine ...about 3800 annual hours.

[FrozenI69]

Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220

Cairo easily, warmer winter and dry sunny summer

I thought you liked weather that resembles Phoenix? El Pasonis closer in terms of climate.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by FrozenI69

I thought you liked weather that resembles Phoenix? El Pasonis closer in terms of climate.

I prefer climates with Mediterranean Precip patterns if they get rain, and I don't like our monsoon season

[marlaver]

If I only go by the numbers, yeah, El Paso. But then if you take in consideration their geographic locations, El Paso is among the biggest fails of a climate in my book. The summers are relentless hot for its altitude. Conversely, winters are surprinsingly mild there yet they still can have some ocasional nasty artic fronts that feel totally misplaced. The only good aspect of El Paso is the good chance of snow on any given year.
In the other hand Cairo is surprinsingly bearable for what you would except being in the middle of the Sahara. Not overwhelming hot at all. And they have a couple of months resembling a "winter".

[Veritas Vincit]

Pretty sure Cairo gets muggy in the summer whereas El Paso doesn't. That's why I went with El Paso.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by Veritas Vincit

Pretty sure Cairo gets muggy in the summer whereas El Paso doesn't. That's why I went with El Paso.

Their mean dewpoint in July and August is 65°F, not that muggy, while El Paso's mean dewpoint is 55°F in July and 57°F in August. Not terribly different

[Shalop]

El Paso is far superior to Cairo because it gets regular frosts in winter and because it can can get ice days sometimes.

The high temperature [in El Paso] on February 2, 2011 was 15 °F (−9 °C), the lowest daily maximum on record. In addition, the low temperature on February 3 was 1 °F (−17 °C)...