# What city has the ideal climate?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-has-the-ideal-climate/293114>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 5, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-has-the-ideal-climate/293114 "2005-03-05T19:08:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![andymurph64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@andymurph64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andymurph64)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-has-the-ideal-climate/293114/21 "2005-03-07T20:03:40Z")

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Pulling this from my butt but I seem to remember reading an article talking about this and they claimed San Diego was near perfect climate for humans. Individual tastes may vary.

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**Author:** ![chefjef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@chefjef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefjef)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-has-the-ideal-climate/293114/22 "2005-03-07T20:26:30Z")

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definitely San Diego for me! 😃

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-has-the-ideal-climate/293114/23 "2005-03-07T21:35:32Z")

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> [@Quartz](#):
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> I live in England. I happen to like mild summers (\<30c) and mild winters (\>1c, though I could stand a decent snow once or twice a year). Where in the US would suit me?

North Carolina or Virginia. Maybe Washington state.

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**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-has-the-ideal-climate/293114/24 "2005-03-07T21:39:56Z")

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Berkeley, California. It always has the best weather in the bay area, which is almost sunny and not too hot, not too cold.

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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-has-the-ideal-climate/293114/25 "2005-03-08T00:24:54Z")

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> [@Plan B](#):
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> Question about San Diego: I see that they only have rain in winter. What is that rain like? Is it predictable, mostly in the afternoon, monsoonlike when it comes, etc.?

California has a rainy season, from Nov - March. We get rain from storms moving west to east via the jet stream; when something forms in the Pacific, it hits the states and moves on through. Lengths of storm and gaps between storms vary depending on El Nino, etc.

Severity diminishes as you go north to south. Some storms will hit northern California and miss Southern California, so they have generally better weather than we do; but the pattern is still the same.

And then, March - Nov, it does not rain. Never. (Well, hardly ever.)

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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-city-has-the-ideal-climate/293114/26 "2005-03-08T02:52:12Z")

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Chicago! Yesterday it was sunny and 65, today it’s snowing!

What can I say? I like variety.

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