It may not meet your criteria of warm, but I guess it depends on your definition of warm.The info on this page is based on historical averages and might not reflect current conditions. They still get sun, but probably less of it than most major cities in the country. Maybe northeastern Ohio? Although the best place might be Juneau, Alaska – I’ve been there in June before and the weather was great – cool, cloudy and misty… and most important of all, comfortable. So the Pacific Northwest isn’t a great place. It gets really awful and really boring very fast. There’s a stretch from about May through September when you can go five straight months with nothing but sun and hot days, and Northwesterners don’t believe in air conditioning, or else have never heard about it. I live in the Seattle area and we still get way too much sun, particularly from March through October. Weather is something that happens in our atmosphere (like clouds, rain, wind, snow, etc.), and last I checked the sun is not in our atmosphere because I’m not dead.Ĭindy, some of the ideas that Peter suggested are maybe the best in the country, but even those are not ideal. Well, I’m afraid to tell you, but sun and no precipitation is not weather. Stay tuned tomorrow for our list of the 10 Worst Weather Cities and plans for compiling a new list.įirst of all, this article is complete nonsense because it’s trying to pinpoint the ten cities with the best weather in the country. Based upon sunshine, heat, low humidity and the other criteria, this was our selection of the best weather cities in the United States as reported in the 2002 Farmers’ Almanac. With the exception of the Santa Ana winds blowing during September and October, temperatures are quite comfortable. The storm track from the Pacific usually lies well to the north keeping most of the clouds and precipitation out of the region. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA–during the spring and summer typically sees low marine clouds at night and early morning but they burn off as the day warms. Bishop has 29 rainy days and Bakersfield has only 37 during the year.ġ0. BISHOP and BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA–both make it onto the list because they ranked respectively as the third and fourth driest cities overall. WINSLOW, ARIZONA–is the seventh least humid city (46%) and eighth driest with annual precipitation totaling only 7.64 inches.Ĩ & 9.
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO–has an arid climate with abundant sunshine, low humidity, scant precipitation, a and wide, yet tolerable, seasonal range of temperatures.ħ. Rain occurs chiefly in the form of afternoon summer thunderstorms, but the humidity is very low during summer and moderately low during the winter.Ħ.
While afternoon temperatures may be above 90✯, a light wrap is often needed after sunset.
Here the daily range of temperatures often exceeds 45✯. RENO, NEVADA–abundant sunshine throughout the year. EL PASO, TEXAS–boasts abundant sunshine, very low relative humidity, scanty rainfall and relatively mild winters.ĥ. It also has the lowest relative humidity at 37% and rated fifth overall in terms of the least annual precipitation with 7.11 inches and eighth for the least number or rainy days (36).Ĥ. PHOENIX, ARIZONA–tied with Las Vegas for number two in terms of possible annual sunshine (85%). LAS VEGAS, NEVADA–comes in second to Yuma in terms of annual precipitation at 4.19 inches, least number of rainy days per year (26), and sunshine 85% of the time.ģ. The drawback-–summer temperatures average at least 100º F from June 4 to September 24, and 105✯ from June 22 to August 26. It is third among the least humid cities, with an average relative humidity of just 38%. YUMA, ARIZONA–number one on our list because average precipitation is 2.65 inches, 17 rainy days per year, and number one for sunshine with 90%. Working on the assumption that heat is a good thing and rain, sleet and snow is bad, let me present our list of the 10 Best Weather Cities in the USA.ġ. Keeping in mind that any list is highly subjective, the factors we considered included temperatures, sky conditions, precipitation, humidity and wind. In the 2002 Farmers’ Almanacâ„¢, we addressed this very issue. I’ve even been asked to select a location for someone who’s trying to relocate from a part of the country they dislike. From time to time I’m asked what are the best cities for weather and what do we consider the worst. We all enjoy reading lists of the best and the worst of almost everything.
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