It's funny how Vegas is as hot as Phoenix in summer (snow, temperature)

[Trimac20]

Las Vegas in July (36.08'N, 659m asl)

low: 76.1F/24.3C high: 105.3F/41.0C

Phoenix in July (33.43'N, 337m asl)

low: 81.0F/27.2C high: 105.3F/41.0C


Vegas is a good 300 km north, and also 300 m higher, yet has the same July high as Phoenix. I think Vegas' position in a valley has something to do with it, and the fact Phoenix gets humid in late summer while Vegas stays pretty much bone dry. Summer nights in Phoenix must also be more oppressive...needless to say, neither place sounds that livable!

[city_data91]

They're both more livable than the frozen North.

[§AB]

I really wouldn't give 2 craps which of these 2 places I'd end up in, both have better summers than Melbourne.

[susancruzs]

Well, not for me, anything above 90°F is out of the question, I'll take the frozen north, thank you very much!

[Jammie]

Originally Posted by §AB

I really wouldn't give 2 craps which of these 2 places I'd end up in, both have better summers than Melbourne.

The only problem is you probably wouldn't like winter in Vegas. We've never been to Phx. so I can't really comment, but we were in Vegas in the wintertime and it's chilly. It's actually nothing like the sub-zero temps we get here, but 30 degrees in the morning there feels like 20 here. I'm not sure why because they have no wind to speak of. Maybe it's because it's arid and lacks the humidity we have in our area????

[§AB]

Originally Posted by Jammie

The only problem is you probably wouldn't like winter in Vegas. We've never been to Phx. so I can't really comment, but we were in Vegas in the wintertime and it's chilly. It's actually nothing like the sub-zero temps we get here, but 30 degrees in the morning there feels like 20 here. I'm not sure why because they have no wind to speak of. Maybe it's because it's arid and lacks the humidity we have in our area????

that wouldn't bother me because I know I'll get a *guaranteed* summer and a damn fine one at that

[Donn2390]

The difference in the two cities is the altitude. Phoenix is considered the low desert, Vegas is the high desert. It will get just as hot in the summer, but it cools off at night in the high desert, so you can sleep.. In the low desert, it stays hot around the clock, so you never get relief.
And, as was stated, it gets really cold in the high desert in the winter time, and even snows sometimes.
I live in the high desert between LA and Vegas. We have the same weather as Vegas, and it snowed here and Vegas a couple of weeks ago. The snow mostly turns to water as soon as it hits the ground, but sometimes we get enough to last a few days. Nothing like Montana, where I spent some winters..!
Susancruzs, 90 degrees here is nothing like 90 degrees in Wisconsin. We have no humidity here, so 90 is comfortable. We don't even turn on the A/C until it gets over 105. If it's 105 outside, it will stay at about 85 degrees inside, without A/C.
I grew up in So Dak, and 80 degrees with humidity there is unlivable. All I remember about the mid west growing up is heat, humidity and flies.
Another advantage to desert life, I've never seen a mosquito, and flies are rare. You can sit on the patio at night and not get eaten up...!

[Jammie]

Hey, guess we grew up in the same state except you left and I'm still here. I like humidity so my thoughts of the upper Midwest are snowstorms and cold.

[susancruzs]

I was to Scottsdale for a wedding in the very end of May and it was not nice, to me too hot! No there isn't humidity but an oven is dry heat and I would not stick myself in one!

I was in Vegas for a week in the summer (July) one time, that was not a pleasant experience either.

Granted 90's in the midwest with the humidity, are uncomfortable but being lakeside, 90 is not an issue or even high 80's in Two Rivers, we're on the cool side. Check out the City-Data chart, I love it!

[catman]

Humidity makes a lot more difference to me than temperature. I'll take 105 F in either of those places over 90 F in Houston.