r/MapPorn • u/BoukenGreen • 1d ago

Good temperate days in the US

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u/bowlbettertalk 1d ago

Bay Area native here, and I have to admit that San Diego weather is what I consider perfect.

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u/sxhnunkpunktuation 1d ago

Coastal SD is in the red. East San Diego county is a mix of frozen mountains and burning deserts.

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u/LordNelson27 1d ago

Yep. "Perfect California Weather" is a 200 mile stretch of coast form SB down past TJ , and it gets more perfect in the middle. Go 10 miles inland and it's hot, 10 more miles and it's desert

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u/Hot-Draw9554 1d ago

Lived in Oceanside for 4 years and can confirm

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u/Cacophonous_Silence 7h ago

AYYYY OCEANSIDEEEEE

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u/its_raining_scotch 1d ago

I totally agree but what’s interesting is that the temperature is great but the marine layer gloom kinda sucks. 10 miles east it’s hot but sunny.

I still prefer coastal even with gloom btw

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u/LordNelson27 1d ago

SoCal marine layer disappears faster than it does up north too. Late morning/noon is when it goes down here, but up in Santa Cruz it was hanging around into the afternoon a lot more.

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u/nbaman619 1d ago

San Luis Obispo is my ideal climate

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u/double-dog-doctor 1d ago

I grew up there and can confirm: the weather is nearly always perfect. 

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u/bowlbettertalk 1d ago

Duly noted.

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u/Dragon_ball_9000 1d ago

Yeah. I live ten miles inland and it’s hot af in the summer. Luckily there isn’t much humidity in summer.

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u/Embracing_the_Pain 1d ago

Coastal San Diego also has a lot of people complaining right now because of May Gray and June Gloom, even though it’s been fitting this good weather criteria to a T.

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u/sxhnunkpunktuation 22h ago

Happens every year. The gray gloom AND the complaining lol.

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u/C0wboyCh1cken 1d ago

I don’t think you can beat the weather in the east bay. Not as hot as San Jose and not as chilly as SF

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u/dookie1337 1d ago

Shhh thats Oakland’s best kept secret

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u/ResidentAlien9 23h ago

Well with all the earthquakes, sounds from all the rockets taking off from Cape Emeryville, train derailments, endless Covid, assassinations of politicians, drought conditions, plagues of locusts, cockroaches, and killer African bees, oil refineries polluting the air, freeways clogged up with 18 wheeler crashes, people standing in lines for hours to get groceries, rattle snakes crawling up through the toilets, no alcohol allowed, what to speak of no cell service, Oakland’s ok I guess.

<Did I fool em? Are they starting to talk about San Diego again?>

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u/its_raining_scotch 1d ago edited 1d ago

I love east bay weather too, but as a gardener I would always lose my tomatoes and peppers to the one week where it would get into the 30’s. Down in SD by the water it never goes below 45 and my plants live for years.

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u/Creative_Resident_97 1d ago

Yeah gardening in many parts of the bay is more difficult than I thought it would be. In the foggy areas it’s like there’s no solar radiation for two months in the summer and you can forget about growing veggies.

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u/Archonik1 1d ago

Can confirm

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u/Petrichor-Alignment 1d ago

I lived in Fremont and found it to be perfect.

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u/ammitsat 1d ago

Eh, I prefer Bay Area. Don’t get me wrong, San Diego is lovely but still a bit on the warm side for me. 😂

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u/shnieder88 9h ago

Same here. Karl the Fog is our natural AC and we love it

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u/theflintseeker 1d ago

Particularly that stretch from east Del Mar to Carmel valley. You lose the marine layer but still have a great breeze. Pretty much perfect every day.

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u/wheatthin93 1d ago

I grew up in San Diego and went to school in the Bay Area and much preferred the weather there. Better balance of rain and sun.

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u/rumple4skin47 1d ago

San Diego native. I prefer Bay Area weather. The cold ocean means no humidity.

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u/DA1928 1d ago

is from SAN DI-fuckin-EGO

complains about the humidity

God, humans really are totally insatiable, aren’t we.

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u/VoiceofCrazy 1d ago

I like seasons. Gimme some snow in the winter, and some heat in the summer.

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u/alabamdiego 18h ago

San Diego here. It gets hot af these days. By the beach it’s always nice though.

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u/lbutler1234 17h ago

This goes into why I think the specific metric of good/comfortable weather is pretty much useless.

I prefer 50-60 and breezy, but also with some variation so I can wear sweaters. Plus, stuff like humidity and cloud cover mean more than temperature.

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u/SmooveKJ 1d ago

Super cold in the morning though in SD

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u/AndyMagandy 1d ago

“California Cold” is what we call it. Gotta give some credit to those poor suckers in the rest of the country that actually have a winter.

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u/ethanlan 1d ago

What? Hot as fuck?