Hopefully that helps the fires this year when it eventually gets hot, at the very least! It's nice to not have to worry about drought, as well. (That's a huge reason why I moved to Seattle from SF.)
It gets too hot a couple weeks every year. 90F+ for days and even in the evening it doesn't drop that much which is rough when most people don't have AC.
> Seattle has great weather. Less rain than Midwest
I know someone who had a depressive episode after moving to Seattle because, "it's raining. It's just a thick, settling mist. But it hasn't stopped, for 100 days"
I am here as well. It looks like La Nina this year. Even though it has rained a lot the weather is still incredible. I originally come from Cape Town and Medellin is the most perfect weather I have ever lived in.
I traveled there for work once in February and it was sunny and high 60s the entire week. I could only think of how grossly unfair it was that people were allowed to live like that. I saw a guy rollerblading with no shirt on.
As a kid, I used to visit my cousins in San Diego, and two summers in a row we had heat waves.
Even though I loved my cousins, the humidity/heat was enough for me to beg to go home.
I remember feeling the fog on the Golden Gate bridge going north, and I was just relieved.
I helped a friend move from Joplin, MO. ten years ago. I actually brought my bicycle because daily exercise helped with my anxiety/depression.
I got off the plane, and that thick moist hot air hit me. I knew there will be no exercise.
My best buddy had a big 7-11 Big Gulp drink in his hand for me. I asked if it's always this hot.
He said this is actually mild.
We were both very broke, and figured I'd get used to the heat. My job was to move him from Joblin to San Rafael. We were beyond co-dependants, and best friends for years.
He took me to his house. It was a small home his father had build in the 40's. He didn't have money to air condition the entire house, but he put up sheets on the kitchen in place of doors. He had one window air conditioner, and that is where we lived for two weeks.
He was getting over his mother's passing.
In the morning he said, "Just trust me on how to survive the heat.".
We would basically just hydrate all day, and look for air conditioning. He smoked heavily, and was just better with the heat than me. He was much older than me, but I was a fat boy.
(I noticed the successful, productive Missourian's went from air conditioned homes, to air conditioned cars, to air conditioned offices. The poor just sweltered.)
Weather seems like the classic the grass is greener elsewhere. I see Edinburgh ranks well which I live near. Had also lived near Toronto and can vouch for the less extreme temperature variance in Scotland. The seasons are less well defined here, it's quite normal to have all 4 seasons in a day.
In the high desert of the US southwest (6000'/1800m and above), it is not unusual to see diurnal temperature swings of 30F/16C or close to it. It's completely normal for at least 2 seasons a year to need an insulated jacket in the morning and evening, a light sweater just after and before the jacket is removed/added, and a t-shirt or similar for the middle of the day. Of course, the chance of rain is close to zero outside of any monsoon season that may or may not occur.
I'm in the southwest at 5000', and if anything you're understating it. To choose convenient arbitrary samples: Tomorrow 40°F low / 82°F high (42°F delta); Saturday 45°F low / 90°F high (45°F delta). Even 60°F swing isn't unheard of.
Ditto: I'm in the southwest (SE AZ) at 4700': Tomorrow 58°F low / 90°F high (32°F delta); Saturday 61°F low / 94°F high (33°F delta). An approximate 30°F diurnal swing is pretty much the norm year-round here. Your comment about precip and monsoon season applies too.
Another interesting measure for these purposes is "heating degree days" and "cooling degree days", i.e. how much the outside temperature varies from indoor temperature.
One of my former coworkers who lived in San Diego said that people there complain whenever the temperature outside is different than the temperature inside, and sure enough, it's the lowest by summed heating and cooling degree days in the US.
that may be true...but as someone who's lived in San Diego before, I can say that the weather and pretty much everything else there, except the traffic, is pretty awesome.
Don't forget to include the cost-of-living and the taxes, along with the traffic.
The weather is quite nice -- but if you really like/want to experience distinct seasons throughout the year, then the lack of variability may leave you dissatisfied.
I grew up in Toronto and lived in Oakland for the past 6 years. Other than some smokey summers weather is near perfect. Very mild "winters", beautiful and sunny summers (much less fog than the coast or Berkeley) with only a few days >30C. Low humidity most of the year. I'm in Carson City now and its colder/hotter, still no humidity.
I was born an raised in Oakland. Live in the East Bay. Oakland has amazing weather. There are social challenges it faces now that give it substantially reduced marks.
You'd probably want to factor in precipitation and humidity as well. Also, having lived in the tropics for a long time, having no variation also gets a little boring after a while, although it is nice to never having to pay attention to the weather forecast.
This is so very true...
Funny anecdote: whilst deciding where to pursue a PhD, the Univ. of Edinburgh website stated: "If you are deciding based on weather, don't come here."
The Scottish weather jokes are really tired at this point, I come from Manchester and when I lived in Edinburgh I got the "How do you like the Scottish weather?", but the weather in Edinburgh is pretty great compared to a lot of the UK, especially the western parts.
Also Iceland/Reykjavík in the top ranking makes me agree with you. I went to school with a girl from Iceland and she told me school was cancelled on days with nice weather in Iceland.
A location where every sunny day becomes an instant holiday shouldn't end up at the top of a list like that. Cool website and demo of R nonetheless I guess.
I always love to see data analysis on tolerable weather. I've done a lot of research on weather in the US and its a perpetually challenging problem. There are a small list of cities where its consistently nice (Solely in california and miami), and a larger list of cities that are have 4 nice seasons. But the data will never tell you the full story - Denver doesn't rank incredibly well in the data but the winters are mild and the summers surprisingly hot because its always sunny and closer to the sun. SLC ranks well, but has unbearable smog. It seems that every city has caveats that can't be captured in the data. Portland seemingly has great weather.. when its not raining.
>Denver doesn't rank incredibly well in the data but the winters are mild and the summers surprisingly hot because its always sunny and closer to the sun.
Difference in distance to the sun is completely negligible. Maybe you’re thinking of UV index?
Well, there’s less air between you and the sun. Most of that 94 million miles are void of anything blocking/filtering light. The last 10 miles aren’t. It likely makes a difference if it only 8-9 miles.
UV index is definitely a more accurate representation. I had to look it up because people always say it’s the elevation, which turns out to be partly true.
The link below says an increase of 2% for every 1000 feet, so most of Denver gets 10% more uv index because it’s closer to the sun (more accurately higher elevation/less atmosphere).
Miami has some weird weather patterns where it’s always humid, but the temperature never reaches triple digits so you don’t have the crazy hot muggy unbearable summers like the Midwest.
The SF Bay Area has the nicest weather year round, which is probably a strong contributing factor to why the area is so rich.
I'm currently in Tokyo. The temparetrue is not the nicest year round, but it feels very natural. There are four seasons. Winter is tolerable and it rarely goes below 0C. It snows about once a year. Summer is hot, just like it should be, but it hardly goes above 32C.
The only thing that bothers me is the rainy season in the summer.
Did you move there from SF? Do you work in tech? I'd be curious to hear how it is if so. My understanding is that they just announced they are going to let international travelers back in June.
They haven't made a final decision yet regarding allowing international travelers, but as far as I understand it, they'll only allow tour groups first, and only the month after open up for tourists. (https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-weighs-w...)
I moved from SF, I work in tech, it is awesome (but don’t work for a Japanese company unless you want to get underpaid and overworked, foreign firms are much better).
Business visas are fine, I've had 5 people join my team from the US in the last few months. The June thing is for tourists, which are still not allowed in.
It's great as long as you work for a US tech company. The selection is pretty limited though. As far as companies with 'US adjacent salary bands'* you've got Amazon, Google, Indeed and now Doordash/Wolt (disclosure, I lead the eng org for DD/W in Tokyo). Also Stripe, I guess.
There are a number of Tier 2 companies which are pretty foreigner friendly but don't have the same level of pay - Rakuten, Line, etc. So if you're willing to compromise a little then there are a lot more options.
*By US adjacent, I don't mean literally as high as in the US, but maybe within 70-90% of a similar role in the states.
The main problem with the California coast is that the water is so cold. Between NorCal and SoCal there is pretty much an ideal weather zone for everyone.
The water is indeed cold most places here. But once you get down to Santa Barbara or better yet Long Beach you can find the occasional beach with warm water.
It's some combination of the very deep water being rather near shore and beaches that get directly blasted with the cold water streaming down the coast from Alaska. Remove/minimize those 2 factors and you can start finding warm water.
In San Diego around late August / early Sept you can find some really warm water relatively speaking. Particularly I used to enjoy going down to La Jolla cove and snorkeling around that time, with temps reaching up to 75f, which feels like bath water for the Pacific Ocean. Fairly certain I've experienced warmer than that a few times growing up.
Cold water is only a problem the first few minutes. After that, it is refreshing. You find that out every single time you gave it a go and stayed. But when you don't, or the one time you went in and out immediately, are the times you remember when you don't have enough data points where you stayed.
Currently in San Diego with the windows and doors open, enjoying the slightly cool air coming in. Great place to live and seems like more tech companies are moving down. Sadly the housing and rent are becoming increasingly inaccessible.
I applaud the San Diego Water Authority's efforts to diversify their sources. The Carlsbad desalination plant receives the most local coverage, but it's the investments in reclamation that will be vital in the coming decades.
Yeah I think no question San Diego has the best weather of CA, followed by maybe Santa Barbara. South Bay LA (on the coast, not to be confused with South Bay, Bay area) is also usually really great and consistent year-round but if you go inland at all the weather can be dramatically different.
But you also get all the air pollution from the port of LA/LB, so thats why prices don't necessarily reflect the access like they do over in redondo beach or down in OC. Can't do anything about much of it either. When the city wanted to remove that breakwater recently that pins water pollution to the beach and killed the surf scene when they erected it decades ago, the navy said no, should they ever need to load explosives into battleships near downtown long beach.
Tokyo summers are miserable, as are the ones in Seoul and New York City. I have lived in all three and every July/August I wonder if this is the year I start cooling off in Bogota for a month.
all my american friends find it ridiculous, but yes, having lived my childhood in heat that you can see rising off the ground in the middle east, i love the pleasant 30-35C summers of NYC where i live now, especially when combined with the daylight deep into "night", like 8-9pm in June-August
I couldn't disagree more, SF's weather is capricious (you always need a sweater, and be prepared to remove it and wear it back as you walk along the city and its many microclimates) and never warm enough (you like wearing shorts, flip flops, skirts, dresses, or just hang out in the evenings in the park? Nope, not going to happen). Because it's never warm enough, or cold enough, nobody has a heater or an AC, and when hot or cold days happen you're in for a real treat in your home.
I'm just saying that it's not for everyone, I'm looking to move out and weather is a big reason. I want to be able to drink and enjoy being in a park in the evening with my friends.
I hear "Japan has four seasons" a lot living there, but I don't get it. It definitely has summer. Leaves take 8 months to gradually fall from trees (if they fall at all) before summer starts again. There's no snow. And obviously there's no snowmelt or sudden greening in the spring.
You might be able to make the claim if your four seasons are "Summer, Typhoon season, Rainy season, Not-summer".
There is snow in Japan close enough pretty much everywhere in the country if you are willing to drive a bit. For example, there's not much snow in Osaka but a lot in Kyoto and a lot around Nagoya, which are close enough.
Obsessing over having 4 seasons is a theme that comes up in several cultures and I believe it is probably an ancient relic from when agrarianism was a nascent lifestyle upon which to base a civilization. Some nomadic cultures are similarly obsessed with the 4 cardinal directions.
I personally find SF Bay Area weather terrible, terrible. SF has the same weather year round and it is as follows:
* Uncomfortably warm during the day
* Uncomfortably cold during the night
* A lot of unpredictable and long-running showers, rain and fog
* A lot of cold wind year-round (especially summer, see below)
I found the following quote by Mark Twain very accurate:
> The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I also personally experienced that, although summers and winters in SF have the same weather (as explained above) somehow summers tend to be colder especially during night and in shades.
It's disingenuous to conflate SF's micro-climate with the entirety of the bay area. I agree that SF weather is insufferable, and I live in San Jose, which is entirely different ... and different again that the mid/upper-peninsula, or the Santa Cruz Mountains, or Marin, or Berkeley.
I think what a lots of folks don't understand until they're living here is exactly how different things are in different areas around the bay.
Generally speaking, I think south bay weather is approximately ideal, if it wasn't for fire season, which can ruin entire summers & falls depending.
Even within SF the weather can be pretty variable depending on what part of the city you're in. My friend living in Richmond has a nice view of the ocean, theoretically, but it's pretty cold and cloudy out in the yard for a lot of the year. I live in the southeast side of the city near Hunter's Point, and we probably have totally overcast days in the single digits, it's basically always sunny and 70 during the day. It does get really windy for a good chunk of the day for a good chunk of the year, but our warmest days are during the spring and summer when that dies down.
My guess is when the candlestick park / shipyard redevelopment happens this is going to be prime residential real estate, it's the best weather in the city IMO.
It doesn't really make sense to talk about "SF Bay Area weather" given that most days there's a 10-30 degree difference between the coldest and warmest parts of the region. If you're near the coast in the summer, a typical "warm day" is mid-to-high 60s, while it's 75-80 in Oakland/Berkeley and 90s in Walnut Creek.
I lived in west SF (near Golden Gate Park/Presidio) for 2 years and I can count the days it was "uncomfortably warm" on one hand.
It's not really the same year round either. Summer is by far the windiest and foggiest season, which is why it feels cold despite a higher base temp (but again, depends where you are).
The Wikipedia page the post's author linked to has weather by month. I confirmed that SF had the coldest average temp in June and July. Mark Twain's apocryphal quote is backed by data.
I live in SF, and agree, it's quite rare when it is too hot during the day. It seems like the gp poster was referring to the SF Bay Area rather than SF. I work in the South Bay and while I hated the pre-pandemic commute, the warm spring/summer/fall weather (and Asian food) were the two redeeming factors. SF's winters were slightly milder than the mild South Bay winters.
As someone else pointed out, the South Bay of Los Angeles has better weather than pretty much anywhere else, at least in California (it is similar to the Mediterranean and Redondo Beach is known for its "Hollywood Riviera").
Supposedly Stanford was founded in Palo Alto after Leland Stanford Jr. hired a cartographer to look around the US to find the city with the best weather (maybe it was most sunny days). A bit too warm for my liking but it's pretty darn nice.
It's amazing how one comment can have so much wrong with it. Long running showers? Downright hilarious. It doesn't rain a drop here 9 months out of the year. When it does, it barely qualifies as a sprinkle. You could walk outside for 20 minutes and not even get soaked. "Cold wind" is the breeze that makes every day feel amazing and fresh.
>I found the following quote by Mark Twain very accurate:
> > The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
He never said this.
I love it but any reason that gets people out of here is great for me.
I lived in Berkeley for about 5 years and this was my experience. Some comments here argue SF Bay Area has different climates in different regions. I never realized this, but if it's true it might explain gaps in my comment (I still fully stand by it. No long running showers? Did we even live in the same place? Berkeley famously has days-long powder-like showers! I was absolutely sick of them when I was living there.)
San Diego is the gold standard for nice weather in California (and most of the planet), it is significantly better than the San Francisco area. I've lived in both and it isn't particularly close.
Running this with wet bulb/dry bulb temperatures would interesting.
In our spring/summer it can get into the mid thirties (celsius), where I live, which is definitely hot, but it typically comes with minimal humidity.
Whereas our biggest city might hit 25 degrees max, but the humidity feels to me like the entire city had a shower and didn't turn on the extractor fans.
This seems to miss out the broader dimensions of "nice weather".
For example, 39F/3.8C on a cloudy winter day on the US east coast is entirely different than the same temperatures in the (intense) sun and low humidity of the high desert in the US southwest.
Conversely, 78F/25.5C in May in the US southwest on a windy day is totally miserable to be out in, because the wind can hit sustained bursts of 25mph/40kmh with much higher gusts, whereas the same temperature on a sunny May day in London might be paradise.
Boston is the land of extremes. The winters are cold, windy, full of snow, and too long. The summers are absurdly humid and hot. The fall is so beautiful it's the most fall you have ever seen. Perhaps spring is a tad mundane, I'll admit.
Boston (and Massachusetts itself) has the most character of any state, and the people are quite unique in various capacities. It is #1 in biotech, education, and healthcare and #2 in finance and software. For the size of its population it punches well above its weight in importance.
To circle back, I think the weather has something to do with it. Tough weather makes tough people. Locals can be gruff at first but if you learn how to break through they are far nicer than New Yorkers.
https://weatherspark.com/ has wonderful visualizations of many different aspects of location-specific weather, including humidity, temperature, wind, and precipitation, and clouds.
Funny, Cusco may be a good candidate based on low variable temperature during the year but my recollection is that it has high variable temperature throughout a 24 hour period.
There is a strong correlation between rich and good weather. Amsterdam a city being rich for many hundreds years has pretty good weather. almost all milt weather cities are rich. Whereas warm climates are a recipe for poorness
I'd be careful making such statements without data. For example, one could wonder if what you observe is a correlation, but not a causation: cities that are close to the sea are rich, as seas allow easy trade. And cities that are close to the sea have a good climate, obviously.
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I know someone who had a depressive episode after moving to Seattle because, "it's raining. It's just a thick, settling mist. But it hasn't stopped, for 100 days"
I don’t see how you can call that good temperature.
IMO, Seattle has the best summers (save last years heat wave). Nice weather from May - September.
It has rained pretty much every day this year in Medellin though. Still it's 20c Edit: Begins to rain
It ranges from +13C to +23C. With extremes being +7C or +28C depending on the time of the year.
But high 60s feels cold when you regularly get summer days over 100 and it occasionally hits the low hundred-teens...
Even though I loved my cousins, the humidity/heat was enough for me to beg to go home.
I remember feeling the fog on the Golden Gate bridge going north, and I was just relieved.
I helped a friend move from Joplin, MO. ten years ago. I actually brought my bicycle because daily exercise helped with my anxiety/depression.
I got off the plane, and that thick moist hot air hit me. I knew there will be no exercise.
My best buddy had a big 7-11 Big Gulp drink in his hand for me. I asked if it's always this hot.
He said this is actually mild.
We were both very broke, and figured I'd get used to the heat. My job was to move him from Joblin to San Rafael. We were beyond co-dependants, and best friends for years.
He took me to his house. It was a small home his father had build in the 40's. He didn't have money to air condition the entire house, but he put up sheets on the kitchen in place of doors. He had one window air conditioner, and that is where we lived for two weeks.
He was getting over his mother's passing.
In the morning he said, "Just trust me on how to survive the heat.".
We would basically just hydrate all day, and look for air conditioning. He smoked heavily, and was just better with the heat than me. He was much older than me, but I was a fat boy.
(I noticed the successful, productive Missourian's went from air conditioned homes, to air conditioned cars, to air conditioned offices. The poor just sweltered.)
I miss you Robert. You were a good friend.
...here's something I find astonishing.
The word "R" doesn't appear anywhere in this article.
He doesn't mention anywhere that he's using "R", and within "R" he's using the "tidyverse".
So much good work to write a tutorial, but a rank beginner will have a hard time figuring out how to replicate it.
I did something similar to this with SQLite once. That was fun.
One of my former coworkers who lived in San Diego said that people there complain whenever the temperature outside is different than the temperature inside, and sure enough, it's the lowest by summed heating and cooling degree days in the US.
The weather is quite nice -- but if you really like/want to experience distinct seasons throughout the year, then the lack of variability may leave you dissatisfied.
toronto weather right now 1am EST May 13 is 64F.
...oh, ok, C, got it. so, too hot? i dig the seasons.
but, global warming. the new extremes are going to be too damn hot, and deadly hot, so...
>>> Scotland
You need more variables
A location where every sunny day becomes an instant holiday shouldn't end up at the top of a list like that. Cool website and demo of R nonetheless I guess.
(1) https://www.google.com/welltemperedtraveler/
(2) https://github.com/lmanul/welltemperedtraveler
(3) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841209
hold up - this tiny part of your comment strikes me as the essential issue facing tech in this era.
Difference in distance to the sun is completely negligible. Maybe you’re thinking of UV index?
Earth is like 94 million miles from the sun, I'm not sure how people reason a few thousand feet somehow puts you too close to the sun.
The link below says an increase of 2% for every 1000 feet, so most of Denver gets 10% more uv index because it’s closer to the sun (more accurately higher elevation/less atmosphere).
https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/uviguide.p...
Lots more hot sunlight at the top of the mountain than on the coast.
I'm currently in Tokyo. The temparetrue is not the nicest year round, but it feels very natural. There are four seasons. Winter is tolerable and it rarely goes below 0C. It snows about once a year. Summer is hot, just like it should be, but it hardly goes above 32C.
The only thing that bothers me is the rainy season in the summer.
There are several tech companies that speak English internally. You can google for Tokyo Dev Jobs or Japan Dev Jobs and a few websites will popup.
Edit:
https://www.tokyodev.com/jobs/
https://japan-dev.com/jobs/
It's great as long as you work for a US tech company. The selection is pretty limited though. As far as companies with 'US adjacent salary bands'* you've got Amazon, Google, Indeed and now Doordash/Wolt (disclosure, I lead the eng org for DD/W in Tokyo). Also Stripe, I guess.
There are a number of Tier 2 companies which are pretty foreigner friendly but don't have the same level of pay - Rakuten, Line, etc. So if you're willing to compromise a little then there are a lot more options.
*By US adjacent, I don't mean literally as high as in the US, but maybe within 70-90% of a similar role in the states.
It's some combination of the very deep water being rather near shore and beaches that get directly blasted with the cold water streaming down the coast from Alaska. Remove/minimize those 2 factors and you can start finding warm water.
I think SoCal especially San Diego definitely has better and more consistent weather. San Diego is an amazing city apart from weather as well!
Meanwhile my childhood hometown is not dipping below 30C this week, and the highs every day are above 43C…
I'm just saying that it's not for everyone, I'm looking to move out and weather is a big reason. I want to be able to drink and enjoy being in a park in the evening with my friends.
You might be able to make the claim if your four seasons are "Summer, Typhoon season, Rainy season, Not-summer".
* Uncomfortably warm during the day
* Uncomfortably cold during the night
* A lot of unpredictable and long-running showers, rain and fog
* A lot of cold wind year-round (especially summer, see below)
I found the following quote by Mark Twain very accurate:
> The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I also personally experienced that, although summers and winters in SF have the same weather (as explained above) somehow summers tend to be colder especially during night and in shades.
I think it just sucks. If you like that's great.
I think what a lots of folks don't understand until they're living here is exactly how different things are in different areas around the bay.
Generally speaking, I think south bay weather is approximately ideal, if it wasn't for fire season, which can ruin entire summers & falls depending.
My guess is when the candlestick park / shipyard redevelopment happens this is going to be prime residential real estate, it's the best weather in the city IMO.
I lived in west SF (near Golden Gate Park/Presidio) for 2 years and I can count the days it was "uncomfortably warm" on one hand.
It's not really the same year round either. Summer is by far the windiest and foggiest season, which is why it feels cold despite a higher base temp (but again, depends where you are).
I live in SF, and agree, it's quite rare when it is too hot during the day. It seems like the gp poster was referring to the SF Bay Area rather than SF. I work in the South Bay and while I hated the pre-pandemic commute, the warm spring/summer/fall weather (and Asian food) were the two redeeming factors. SF's winters were slightly milder than the mild South Bay winters.
As someone else pointed out, the South Bay of Los Angeles has better weather than pretty much anywhere else, at least in California (it is similar to the Mediterranean and Redondo Beach is known for its "Hollywood Riviera").
Supposedly Stanford was founded in Palo Alto after Leland Stanford Jr. hired a cartographer to look around the US to find the city with the best weather (maybe it was most sunny days). A bit too warm for my liking but it's pretty darn nice.
>I found the following quote by Mark Twain very accurate:
> > The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
He never said this.
I love it but any reason that gets people out of here is great for me.
In our spring/summer it can get into the mid thirties (celsius), where I live, which is definitely hot, but it typically comes with minimal humidity.
Whereas our biggest city might hit 25 degrees max, but the humidity feels to me like the entire city had a shower and didn't turn on the extractor fans.
So I definitely prefer the dry heat to the humid.
For example, 39F/3.8C on a cloudy winter day on the US east coast is entirely different than the same temperatures in the (intense) sun and low humidity of the high desert in the US southwest.
Conversely, 78F/25.5C in May in the US southwest on a windy day is totally miserable to be out in, because the wind can hit sustained bursts of 25mph/40kmh with much higher gusts, whereas the same temperature on a sunny May day in London might be paradise.
I would take 20 to 25C,low humidity and low wind speed. :)
Boston (and Massachusetts itself) has the most character of any state, and the people are quite unique in various capacities. It is #1 in biotech, education, and healthcare and #2 in finance and software. For the size of its population it punches well above its weight in importance.
To circle back, I think the weather has something to do with it. Tough weather makes tough people. Locals can be gruff at first but if you learn how to break through they are far nicer than New Yorkers.