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But the rain here in Saigon goes in spurts. You have around 7 months of rainy season but it usually rains 1 hour per day or so after lunch time (13:00-14:00).

But the rain here in Saigon goes in spurts. You have around 7 months of rainy season but it usually rains 1 hour per day or so after lunch time (13:00-14:00). Occassionally evening, rarely morning. But it is extremely rare that it covers a long span of the day. Really rare even if it can rain like one month in a row every day. Once I counted from 1st september to 10th of october. However, you skip the rain and continue at some other time. It does not bother. Maybe people tend to imagine you cannot do anything bc it rains a lot, but the rain is concentrated in short spans.

sarchertech 4y ago
It’s not just rain though. It’s the heat and humidity, and cloud cover. Also an hour of hard rain per day will prevent plenty of activities because everything is constantly wet. Sure you can get used to it and clearly millions of people live with it, but I can’t imagine the climate in Saigon is a selling point. I’ve talked to my sister-in-law about it before—she was born and raised in Saigon. She clearly was able to deal with it. She talks about doing things like driving a scooter in a downpour. But she also complains about how awful the weather was compared to where she lives now. She lives in a hot, muggy, rainy city in the US (by US standards), so that’s really saying something.
- germandiago 4y ago
  > Sure you can get used to it and clearly millions of people live with it, but I can’t imagine the climate in Saigon is a selling point. For me it is. The rain clears up the pollution, does not bother too much, and I can go to the swimming pool today or any day in the year. > But she also complains about how awful the weather was compared to where she lives now I do not think, this is my personal opinion, of course, that it is that bad as in the paper. Bc if you say it rains for 7 months people would run away. If you say, from those only 2-3 like every day, it rains in very concentrated spurts and does not clash with activities (if you work most of the day) and it cleans the air and you can still go to the swimming pool, for example, all year. I do not think it is that bad after 11 years in Vietnam.
  - sarchertech 4y ago
    >The rain clears up the pollution That’s not a selling point. The air quality in Vietnam has only gotten worse over the last decade. Saigon’s pm2.5 levels are significantly worse than the worst US city. >I do not think it is that bad after 11 years in Vietnam. It’s not that bad because you’re used to it is not a selling point.
    - germandiago 4y ago
      It is not a selling point but it is not a bad thing in this case. It is better to have rain when there is pollution. I think we can agree on that.
      - sarchertech 4y ago
        Sure a place with bad are quality with daily rain is probably preferable to a place with bad air quality without daily rain. But assuming you don’t live in one of the 20 or so large cities in the world with worse air quality than Saigon, that point is irrelevant to this discussion.

sarchertech 4y ago

It’s not just rain though. It’s the heat and humidity, and cloud cover. Also an hour of hard rain per day will prevent plenty of activities because everything is constantly wet. Sure you can get used to it and clearly millions of people live with it, but I can’t imagine the climate in Saigon is a selling point. I’ve talked to my sister-in-law about it before—she was born and raised in Saigon. She clearly was able to deal with it. She talks about doing things like driving a scooter in a downpour. But she also complains about how awful the weather was compared to where she lives now. She lives in a hot, muggy, rainy city in the US (by US standards), so that’s really saying something.

germandiago 4y ago
> Sure you can get used to it and clearly millions of people live with it, but I can’t imagine the climate in Saigon is a selling point. For me it is. The rain clears up the pollution, does not bother too much, and I can go to the swimming pool today or any day in the year. > But she also complains about how awful the weather was compared to where she lives now I do not think, this is my personal opinion, of course, that it is that bad as in the paper. Bc if you say it rains for 7 months people would run away. If you say, from those only 2-3 like every day, it rains in very concentrated spurts and does not clash with activities (if you work most of the day) and it cleans the air and you can still go to the swimming pool, for example, all year. I do not think it is that bad after 11 years in Vietnam.
- sarchertech 4y ago
  >The rain clears up the pollution That’s not a selling point. The air quality in Vietnam has only gotten worse over the last decade. Saigon’s pm2.5 levels are significantly worse than the worst US city. >I do not think it is that bad after 11 years in Vietnam. It’s not that bad because you’re used to it is not a selling point.
  - germandiago 4y ago
    It is not a selling point but it is not a bad thing in this case. It is better to have rain when there is pollution. I think we can agree on that.
    - sarchertech 4y ago
      Sure a place with bad are quality with daily rain is probably preferable to a place with bad air quality without daily rain. But assuming you don’t live in one of the 20 or so large cities in the world with worse air quality than Saigon, that point is irrelevant to this discussion.