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Find Cities with Similar Climates
- lzm 13y agoI'm getting a blank page on Safari. http://mikemcbrearty.com/climate/search?q=Vitória http://mikemcbrearty.com/climate/search?q=Vitória
- gvkv 13y agoInteresting. As far as I can tell though, it doesn't seem to account for humidity, pollution or wind patterns. The former is especially important for hot climates (or times of the year) since when it comes to comfort, hot dry >> hot humid.
- HNJohnC 13y agoYeah it doesn't account for a lot of stuff. I'm in a Mediterranean climate here and it's suggesting a lot of places that are very far from that. If it's supposed to be used for plant growing related purposes it's not going to be very useful.
- sandbags 13y agoI tried to search for my city and got back: EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA LONDON AIRPORT, CANADA I would have thought London (UK) might have got a mention.
- buf 13y agoSeconded.
- silvestrov 13y agoWhen I type "København" it responds with an empty page. It seems like any non-ascii character makes the page crash. It doesn't have "Copenhagen", only "Koebenhavn" which nobody uses.
- salvadors 13y agoOne of the cities it gives for Estonia is "Pjarnu", for Pärnu. But then it also thinks the capital is "Tallin", rather than Tallinn.
- lesslaw 13y agosomething missing from the title "some cities"
- pratyushag 13y agoI couldn't find Kathmandu, Nepal on it. Thanks, pretty cool site!
- c54 13y agoSome sort of filter-by-country, or even just more than 10 results would be a nice addition. And a 'minimum population' control.
- jamesaguilar 13y agoCool, although the recall leaves something to be desired.
- benblack86 13y agoSeems to only show airpots.
- dean 13y agoNice idea. I like the clean interface and it's very responsive. Nice comparison feature as well. I think you need some kind of canonical name resolution though. For example, searching for 'Moscow' returns nothing -- but it is found as 'Moskva'. Also, nothing is returned for 'Nairobi', but it's there as 'Jomo Kenyatta International' which is their airport. Not exactly obvious. Overall very nice work.
- kentlyons 13y agoAdding in maps would also be interesting - seeing where these different "similar" places on the planet are.
- lysol 13y agoThis city search is the worst one I've ever used. Devs, please test your sites, even the toy projects.
- Apocryphon 13y agoIs it only showing airports because the dataset uses climate data from aeronautical sources?
- DoubleCluster 13y agoResults found for: amsterdam * No results found. Great product!
- frozenport 13y agoThat doesn't sound very nice...
- replax 13y agoNice Project. Bug: as soon as you enter mon ASCI Charaters in the search, it will return a blank page, tried: münchen (munich), 東京 (Tokyo).
- Filligree 13y agoI tried searching for my city (Tromsø), and got an absolutely blank page back. At least tell me "City not found".
- _delirium 13y agoIt looks like it works if you write it 'Tromso'. But you have to write Copenhagen as 'Koebenhavn', so it seems inconsistent in handling the ø.
- skiba 13y agono result found for cape town, south africa. :S
- nawitus 13y agoDoesn't find Tampere, Finland.
- graue 13y agoNice hack. The visualization is well done. Feature idea: It would be cool if you could sketch the min/max temperatures and rainfall you'd like for your ideal city, and it would tell you what's close to that.
- RyanZAG 13y agoDo a search for 'South Africa' - the cities it returns are all small cities which are just big enough to have airports. In the cases of places like new york, only the airport is returned. I'm just guessing here, but possibly this is a database of geographical locations with a population figure attached. The author has probably swapped 'only show cities with greater than X population' with 'only show cities with less than X population'. Airports would have very low population, and that's why there are so many airports. It also doesn't handle non-ASCII characters. It's a guess, anyway.
- beachstartup 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service in the US the NWS / NOAA operates weather stations at airports, wouldn't be surprised if other countries have similar programs. my hometown has a much larger population than the next one over, but the next one over is listed because there's an airport there.
- RyanZAG 13y agoYou missed my point maybe - the fact that your hometown is bigger and not listed is exactly the problem. There are a number of small cities listed that do not have airports also. The key is that a listed city either lists as 'airport' (population 0), or is a very small city (low population). So my point is that the filtering is probably backwards, and it's filtering out big cities instead of filtering out small ones. Maybe. ;)
- jasondenizac 13y agoMight it not be likely that an application dependent on weather data is actually limited to locations for which weather data is available, regardless of population?
- ketralnis 13y agoIt doesn't know about London? Results found for: london EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA LONDON AIRPORT, CANADA
- peterjs 13y agoWhat I really like about the search, is that it accounts for seasons on different hemispheres. E.g. it returns Lisboa and Cadiz as places similar to Sydney. Even though the months with hot weather are different in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. As a side note - clicking the name of a place shows an overlay in the graph. It was not obvious at first; the names are in black.
- frozenport 13y agoHaving trouble with "http://mikemcbrearty.com/climate/search?q=moscow" http://mikemcbrearty.com/climate/search?q=moscow"
- the1213 13y agoOverall, this is pretty alright, though I'm looking at the climate results for Boston in the summertime right now, and as sweat pours down my face I really really wish that 25°C was the average temperature around here in June-July.
- Siecje 13y agoWhy are the colours so similar? What about a link to see cities that are the most opposite?
- meritt 13y agoCan you just list the cities you actually support instead of masquerading with a search box?
- acchow 13y agoNice idea. Though I think "hours of sunlight" is probably more important than "precipitation.
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- at-fates-hands 13y agoTrying to figure out the point of this. It's counter intuitive to how most people think. If I want to move, chances are, I want to move somewhere different than the climate I'm already in. Same thing for vacation. I'm still trying to find a reason I want to go somewhere with the same climate as the one I'm currently in. Perhaps a better idea would be to show places which are completely opposite of the one you're already in.
- marquis 13y agoFor me it was the opposite: I choose where I live and I prefer mild climates like southern California in the fall, or Chicago in September. I'd love to see a fully-blossomed climate-view during the year, to city-jump during the most liveable seasons (avoid Chicago Nov-April or July-August for example)
- ericedge 13y agoI must confess I didn't expect the number of curt "the search is inadequate" responses; I posted this because it solved a particular problem I've been curious about for some time, and does a great job of displaying the data in a way that's useful to me. I found the graph display quite handy--using the same scaling on all pages allows me to easily compare different locations in different browser tabs, but the data is displayed simply enough that I'm not overwhelmed with sparklines like I am at other climate sites. That said, I'd love to see more details about the underlying dataset; given the way the search works it appears to be a SQL database, so I assume it's public data from somewhere?
- DoubleCluster 13y agoIf you can't find any cities how are you going to evaluate the rest of the features? I'm not going to play "guess the city".
- mmcb 13y agoI put this site together, glad it's useful for you. The graphs are my take on climatographs. The data is from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center, see http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/. The dataset has good coverage of the US, but as people have pointed out, there are gaps in many places, such as the UK. The comparison is based on the monthly average max and min temperatures.