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Thank you! Perhaps the climate of São Paulo is more like Atlanta then? Does São Paulo ever get ice or snow?
I agree that the comparisons with NYC, Miami, and San Jaun are the most valid. Now again, some will say that San Juan is technically not part of a US state, but that is another discussion.
São Paulo, without any doubt, is the most powerful economic, financial, and population center in Brazil, and very likely perhaps in all of South America.
Frosts are pretty common every year. Miami is stuffy in the summer like any coastal sub-tropical city, São Paulo not but Miami is warmer in the winter.
Yes I agree the standard of life for the average person in São Paulo is similar with San Juan in Puerto Rico in continental USA any big city are richer
Anyway, labelling São Paulo as the answer to NYC in South America is recurring in Brazil and other countries.
It's the economic powerhouse of Brazil without being the political capital and has the strongest economic influence in all of South America. Also, like NYC, it has also a taste of being a "world's corner" because of the large amount of inmigrants and business visitors.
São Paulo is much colder than Miami, the city is 1000 meters above the sea level. Its climate is more similar southern California.
The city has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Cfa), according to the Köppen classification. In summer (January through March), the mean low temperature is about 19 °C (66 °F) and the mean high temperatures is near 28 °C (82 °F). In winter, temperatures tend to range between 8 and 21 °C (46 and 70 °F).
The record high temperature was 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) on October 17, 2014 and the lowest −3.2 °C (26.2 °F) on June 25, 1918. Temperature averages are similar to those of Sydney and Shanghai.
The Tropic of Capricorn, at about 23°27' S, passes through north of São Paulo and roughly marks the boundary between the tropical and temperate areas of South America. Because of its elevation, however, São Paulo enjoys a more temperate climate.
The city experiences four seasons. The winter is mild and sub-dry, and the summer is moderately warm and rainy. Autumn and spring are transitional seasons. Frosts occur sporadically in regions further away from the center, in some winters throughout the city. Regions further away from the center and in cities in the metropolitan area, can reach temperatures next to 0 °C (32 °F), or even lower in the winter.
Some notes: São Paulo doesn't reach temperatures near 0 °C. I lived in São Paulo for ten years and the coldest it got there was 5 °C at dawn. That particularly cold year, I remember very well, was 2013. Generally winters in São Paulo are warmer then that, and the cold always comes in cold fronts (as it is in all Southeast of Brazil), so we have one or two weeks really cold (as I am experiencing right now in the State of Minas Gerais, the termometer marks 9 °C at 11:30 p.m.) followed by two or three weeks with higher temperatures (25 °C by day, 15 °C at night).
The winters are very, very, very DRY. Think of a desert dry. That's how it is. It's hard to live. It's hard to breathe. It's unbeareble. I don't think I'm capable of living in São Paulo again in the winter. I'ts normal that it doesn't rain there for two months. There's no humidity in the air, it's horrible.
The summers are a nightmare of their own. It rains EVERY SINGLE DAY. Everyday, at the same time of the day. All day long the temperature rises and rises, the sun shines bright in the sky (I used to suffer from insolation at least once every summer), and then, around 5 p.m. (it seemed to me that it's always been exactly at 5 p.m.), occurs a violent storm that lasts about only half an hour, but it's destructive.
São Paulo is only 700 to 780 meters above sea level (that I also remember well, because I worked with Engineering Geology there). São Paulo is not higher than any neighbouring city, in fact the elevation around 700 m extends to a large part of Brazil (it's a geomorphological phenomenon that used to be called "Rio das Velhas Surface").
The four seasons are subtly marked, autumn and spring as short periods of "not so hell on Earth" (that being when people are not so sick to death from the dry and not whipped by tropical storm on a daily basis).
I would be surprised if there's a city in the world that has a ****ty climate like that, so it's hard to compare São Paulo with other cities based on its unique climatic features.
Some notes: São Paulo doesn't reach temperatures near 0 °C. I lived in São Paulo for ten years and the coldest it got there was 5 °C at dawn. That particularly cold year, I remember very well, was 2013. Generally winters in São Paulo are warmer then that, and the cold always comes in cold fronts (as it is in all Southeast of Brazil), so we have one or two weeks really cold (as I am experiencing right now in the State of Minas Gerais, the termometer marks 9 °C at 11:30 p.m.) followed by two or three weeks with higher temperatures (25 °C by day, 15 °C at night).
The winters are very, very, very DRY. Think of a desert dry. That's how it is. It's hard to live. It's hard to breathe. It's unbeareble. I don't think I'm capable of living in São Paulo again in the winter. I'ts normal that it doesn't rain there for two months. There's no humidity in the air, it's horrible.
The summers are a nightmare of their own. It rains EVERY SINGLE DAY. Everyday, at the same time of the day. All day long the temperature rises and rises, the sun shines bright in the sky (I used to suffer from insolation at least once every summer), and then, around 5 p.m. (it seemed to me that it's always been exactly at 5 p.m.), occurs a violent storm that lasts about only half an hour, but it's destructive.
São Paulo is only 700 to 780 meters above sea level (that I also remember well, because I worked with Engineering Geology there). São Paulo is not higher than any neighbouring city, in fact the elevation around 700 m extends to a large part of Brazil (it's a geomorphological phenomenon that used to be called "Rio das Velhas Surface").
The four seasons are subtly marked, autumn and spring as short periods of "not so hell on Earth" (that being when people are not so sick to death from the dry and not whipped by tropical storm on a daily basis).
I would be surprised if there's a city in the world that has a ****ty climate like that, so it's hard to compare São Paulo with other cities based on its unique climatic features.
This is, by far, the most accurate description of the climate of São Paulo which I ever read.
I'd say both L.A. and Miami are on a 'good' path to resemble Sao Paulo in different ways.
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