It's comparable to Phoenix, if your point of reference is somewhere very mild like SF. While Dallas may have had a hot year, they only average 18 days > 99F[1],

It's comparable to Phoenix, if your point of reference is somewhere very mild like SF. While Dallas may have had a hot year, they only average 18 days > 99F[1], whereas Phoenix averages 109 days[2]. When you look at just the last handful of years, Phoenix has been having more than 30 days with a high above 110. [1]: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/?n=d100info http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/?n=d100info [2]: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=psr http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=psr All that said, yes it is typically quite dry in Phoenix. No, that does not make the heat somehow less significant. The sun scars the land and kills most life. It's a rough place to be. Also, the tech scene there is quite meh. There's a few big data centers and some little companies hosting things in them, and there's GoDaddy, but there isn't much else. Don't even think about Phoenix over Dallas unless you really like hiking (that scene is amazing in PHX).