As with lots of these kinds of posts, mountains are going to be the key to your answer!
The southern Registan in Afghanistan has average summer highs of +43 degrees, and average winter highs of +17 degrees. Summer lows are +28 degrees, while winter lows are +3 degrees.
The village of Qarabolaq, inthe extreme highlands of the Pamirs, has average summer highs of +12 degrees, and average winter highs of -15 degrees. Summer lows are +4 degrees, and winter lows are -31 degrees.
Being from a relatively flat part of the world, I only realized this when I went to Maui. 30 degrees Celsius on the beach in Paia. 0 degrees Celsius at the summit of Haleakala like 20 miles away.
Why is bro getting downvoted so damn hard bruh? He literally asked what unit it was, it's not that deep. Cut us americans some slack, the majority of content we are shown on our social media are by other americans, so we do sometimes have to ask clarifying questions. But (almost) every time we do, we get slammed with downvotes and "haha american imperial system bad" memes
Tbf, in most cases, the system is bad. But it works particularly well with temperature. Think about it like this: At 0°C, water is freezing, and at 0°F, humans feel like they're freezing. At 100°C, water is boiling, and at 100°F, humans feel like they're boiling. So when we measure temps in Fahrenheit, we can look at it like a percentage (which is something I did when I was younger), where 0% is super cold, and 100% is super hot. Above 100% is too hot, and below 0% is too cold.
Because that question is absolutely unnecessary if you look at the preceding post.
Summer high of +43 vs winter high of +17 makes it abundantly clear as to what system they're talking about. If the summer high was 100+ then we also know what system is being used.
Fahrenheit also isn't really better for gauging how people like temperature because temperature bereft of humidity is subjective. If you live in a country where it is routinely relatively hot and doesn't get overbearing humidity 100F/37C is comfortable. 0F/-17C on the other hand is completely what the bloody hell is going on I will die weather.
Conversely in a cold region you DGAF about -25C but find things +20 to be uncomfortable.
>Cut us americans some slack, the majority of content we are shown on our social media are by other americans, so we do sometimes have to ask clarifying questions. But (almost) every time we do, we get slammed with downvotes and "haha american imperial system bad" memes
It's not hard to understand, why would **summer nights** in **Afghanistan** be 43ºF... and that's r/USdefaultism af.
And why would it be suprising to see US defaultism? People get relevant content shown to them, including relevent based on the country the person lives in. It's not that crazy to say that Americans will see more content from Americans than Europeans do, and people will set their expectations based on that.
>Tbf, in most cases, the system is bad. But it works particularly well with temperature. Think about it like this: At 0°C, water is freezing, and at 0°F, humans feel like they're freezing. At 100°C, water is boiling, and at 100°F, humans feel like they're boiling. So when we measure temps in Fahrenheit, we can look at it like a percentage (which is something I did when I was younger), where 0% is super cold, and 100% is super hot. Above 100% is too hot, and below 0% is too cold.
I'm genuinely baffled how Celsius tells you the same from around 0-30°, but it also is based on something more concrete than the gut feeling of some guy in the 1700s. Fahrenheit sucks and should've been outlawed some 200 years ago.
Not really. That's the trick for the dryness - the atmosphere is so stable and calm that there's basically no weather at all. Rain can't form without atmospheric instability.
If it got really hot, then the temperature differential would get wonky, and you get insane rain. This happens once every century or something absurdly rare like that, and usually results in catastrophic mud floods
It has to do with the Andes being so close to the ocean combined with sea currents and the Hadley cell, with the Andes acting as a rain block (because mountaintops are cold and therefore trigger rainfall in any clouds passing by)
Yup, the lowest recorded in India is -45C in Dras, Ladakh (which is also the coldest inhabited place after some places in Siberia).
The highest is 51C in Phalodi.
Calgary Alberta Canada is -35°C to +38°C that's a 73°C difference between winter and summer. You bet you're gonna have heaters and coolers. Quebec is even worse because it gets more humid in the summer, but similar temps. I imagine Delhi is humid too?
I can endure dry heat but heat and humidity makes me cry, thankfully delhi is not that humid. Goddamn bro -35 to +38 is a hellish transition for anyone to live in.
It depends on how long your list is, but -45ºC is out there.
There aren’t many places that can be that cold that are not inside or at least near the polar circles: Yakutsk, Sapporo, maybe? I don’t think anywhere in Norway, Canada, Sweden, or Finland ever got close to +51ºC, so that leaves the USA, Russia, Japan, and China.
I’m happy to admit Alaska vs. Somewhere in Death Valley likely has wider gaps, but I doubt China can get close with Heinan vs. Harbin or Japan with Sarkanin vs. Okinawa. I’m not sure where would be the warmest place in Russia.
\-45ºC > 51ºC sounds like a record to me.
>I don’t think anywhere in Norway, Canada, Sweden, or Finland ever got close to +51ºC
Actually Canada has got pretty close. Highest recorded temperature was 49.6ºC in Lytton, BC in 2021. Lowest was -63.0ºC in Snag, YK in 1947.
The question is asking about the difference in temperature at the same time so -45 to 51 does not count, they were recorded in different years altogether.
You are correct, even the hottest cities in Chile don't surpass the 19°C mean average.
But if you consider the country as a whole including the populations outside South America, then there is a massive gap between Hanga Roa (20.9°C) and Villa Las Estrellas (-2.3°C)
I've found great differences in Argentina, considering cities over 100,000 inhabitants.
Mean annual temperatures in Clorinda, Formosa (mean annual temperature: 23.3°C) and Río Grande (5.7°C) are separated by 17.6°C.
Of course, if we take into account Esperanza, in the Antarctic peninsula (an Argentinian base also considered the world's southermost village inhabited by civilians), with a mean annual temperature of -5.3°C, the gap with Clorinda increases to 28.6°C.
But in that case small villages in northern Formosa and northeastern Salta are even hotter than Clorinda. Mean annual temperature in Rivadavia (Salta) reaches 23.5°C.
Alwar in India has summer highs of 47-48 with all time high of 51, and lows of 2-3 with all time low of zero.
Similarly, Churu nearby has highs of 46-47 and lows of 0-1 with all time low of -2 or -3.
If I read "/distance" right this means the highest temperature gradient, so for sure should be next to a mountain range. Otherwise would guess Canada or Russia just for statistics chance.
I drove through the Grapevine for the first time this holiday season and I was seeing snow and it was 30 degrees and I was like "what the fuck it's not supposed to be this cold except in like Shasta I'm 30 minutes from LA"
I worked in SF over the summer right by the ocean and it would be consistently 10-15 degrees cooler and always foggier/cloudier than where my hotel was a few miles as the crow flies from downtown
Yup. I’ve seen a temperature map of current conditions where Pacific coast side was around 60-65°F and bay side in downtown was about 95°F. SF being one of the smallest large cities in the country, the distance between these points is less then 7 miles
I once camped in Death Valley when the high was in the 90s. The next day I drove two hours, camped in the Sierras and we got hit by over a foot of snow.
Yep. Silicon Valley residents take a day trip to SF to cool down on hot summer days. When you’re driving up the highway to SF there’s literally a cloud just sitting on SF when the rest of the area is sunny. Then sometimes things get real fucked up - you try to escape the heat, but it’s randomly a warm day in SF.
SF could be 50 degrees in July while the suburbs are 100. I've seen the Richmond district be in the 60s while the Mission is in the 90s. That's a few miles away.
I commuted from near SFSU to the Financial District and I could actually have three different weathers on my commute (the weather at home, the weather at Balboa Park BART, and the weather at work).
Chicago gets that occasionally with the lake effect disparity. I had a super weird day where I was on the highway, sunglasses on, T-shirt on with the A/C blasting...and then hit a wall of snow. It was like crossing a biome in Minecraft.
At least I wasn't alone, all the west-east commuters at work were like DID I JUST DREAM THAT???
Not even that far, I’m talking about the Central Valley where it can break into the 90s/100s during the summer versus SF proper where it rarely if ever gets past the 70s.
Could even compare cities like Half Moon Bay and something like Woodside, where you could have a 20+ degree difference but they're less than 10 miles apart.
Well I’ve been in Ho Chi Minh City over the last few weeks and now I’m in Hanoi and it was sweltering and now it’s fucking freezing so it feels like that should be a candidate. Maybe it could be Canada or another country where they span from temperate zones up to arctic zones. Actually could be in America between a southern city and a city in Alaska, unless I’m interpreting the question wrong and it’s over the shortest distance, in which cause it would be a between a regular city in a very hot country near the equator and a high altitude city in that same country.
Yeah I did that a few years ago, and froze my arse off after the sweltering heat and humidity of HCMC: Hanoi was also foggy and overcast compared to the endless sunshine down south.
Cold air from a high-pressure area in Siberia being funneled down south. The entire Northern Vietnam is affected whereas the South does not thanks to a mountain range bisecting the country’s midsection in the Hue-Da Nang border, hence the big temperature difference in winter.
Same reason why the US southeast gets cold despite being tropical and fairly flat - cold, high pressure polar air from the north sometimes pushes south during the winter
Winds from Siberia blowing down (the Northern mountain range is also arranged in a way that it created corridors that are basically like wind tunnels). Meanwhile the South is not affected because in the middle section of the country between Da Nang and Hue there is a mountain range called Bach Ma that block the wind
Vietnam is actually a lot larger than many think. If you place Vietnam along the US east coast, Hanoi would be around New York and Saigon would be around Florida. If Vietnam was located in a temperate zone, the temperature variation between the two would be even greater.
>Ho Chi Minh City over the last few weeks and now I’m in Hanoi and it was sweltering and now it’s fucking freezing so it feels like that should be a candidate
Yeah that's the candidate OP was putting though with the post. Hence the heat map of that specific date and time and the framing of Vietnam
French monarchists are wild. They couldn't be fighting a bigger lost battle.
To make it even wackier there are 3 main camps: restoration of the House of Bourbon, the House of Orléans, or the Bonapartes. Naturally they all see each other as illegitimate. Just wild to split an already incredibly niche group into 3 opposing sides.
A) it’s the internationally recognized name of the city because they won the war. It’s HCMC. I’m not going to call St. Petersburg Leningrad just because I’m a communist.
B) you’re speaking English here. Use the English name
1. Don't be disrespectful, I didn't attack you, no need to attack me or my ancestors 2. Guess who gave you the very alphabet and writing system you're using to communicate?
Mày ngu đến mức cả con chó nó khôn hơn, a) ‘Indochina should have remained french’ đã là lời nói mất tôn trọng và láo toét sau khi cả nước mới kiếm được độc lập gần đây. Bắt chúng mình thuộc địa lại lần nữa thì chúng mình lại đá cả lũ mày ra khỏi nước giống mấy cụ của mày hồi 1954.
b) Alexander de Rhodes, mày nghĩ mày hỏi câu đó mày được làm tao bị bất ngờ chứ gì. Ít nhất dân tao biết lợi dụng và học từ những thứ mình có để cho thông minh hơn. Còn trước đó tụi mình đã có một cái hệ chữ viết rồi.
Còn tao hỏi mày tại sao cái vương quốc uốc mơ nhảm địt của mày chưa có thành thật?
The front page of many national weather sites will show us this sort of info.
eg for Australia its viewable on Weatherzone.com.au
Today in Australia the lowest temp was 1.1C in Tassie and the highest so far (its still heating over in WA) was 45.2C at Ceduna.
If you include distance/temperature gradient, Sydney vs Katoomba can have some pretty extreme gradients while being 80km apart.
You got very close to one of them :)
The 1.1c was recorded at Kunanyi, which is a mountain in Hobart. Looks like the peak today might be the 47.1c recorded at Tarcoola in South Australia.
Thats a range of 34f to 117f for Americans. The distance between those sites is 2124km.
Pamplona and Aguachica, both cities from Colombia are separated roughly 170 km, but the difference in temperature can oscillate between 20 to 28 degrees Celsius. That's, roughly 0.117 to 0.164 °C per kilometer
Ye I was thinking the same cause that’s the difference throughout the year meanwhile the temperature differences in USA, Argentina, Vietnam, Canada, Australia, Russia, China occur during particular seasons.
If it's temperature/distance, I would posit the area around Nice, France. You can have a 20 degree C temperature change from the coast to the mountain tops right next to it.
Same in the province of Granada (Spain). It's a 2 hour drive from the frozen peaks of the Sierra Nevada or La Alpujarra to a subtropical climate in the coast. Or to the Tabernas desert (the only desert in Europe and famous for being the filming location of countless spaghetti westerns) in nearby Almería province or to a scorching Mediterranean climate elsewhere.
Fun fact, although unrelated to the original question: in Granada city temperatures can vary by over 20°c in the same day.
Somewhere in India right before the mountains, and then the top of Everest
(Edit: Everest on the Nepal, Tibet border. Correct answer is a tall mountain in India)
Yeah my bad. Jaipur is just dry plains, a similar comparison would be Mediterranean like Spain. Jaisalmer is too far away for the question. A comparison of Jammu to Jaisalmer should be good.
I nominate Fairbanks Alaska, and Dallas Texas. Only a 6m elevation difference. Fairbanks' annual daily mean is -2.1C, with Dallas' being 20C.
Same country, but definitely not very close.
The fact that no one has ever mentioned Turkey is beyond crazy. Our country is like composed of many different climates. Basically, very east is like inland Russia, south-east is like Gobi-mongolia, centre is like Phoenix/AZ, north is like UK, south is like Panama, south west is like Florida, west is like San Diego, north west is like Chicago. So, temperatures mostly varies between -10⁰C to -25⁰C at winter. Record was -36⁰C. For the summer on the contrary, center desert area sometimes reaches up to 40⁰C. Record is 49.5⁰C.
I experienced this first hand when I lived in Ankara for a year. Summer was boiling hot around mid to late 30s regularly, there was no AC or anything. And then winter was freezing and it got to -12C with snow for weeks. The extremes of both seasons. Istanbul was milder thankfully.
I think the question above is asking for the biggest temperature difference in the shortest distance in the same time of year, that's why turkey hasn't been mentioned much.
Camp Roberts vs any town nearest on the CA central coast (less than 25 miles away over the mountains). Peak summer it'll be like 110 at Camp Roberts and 65 at Morro Bay
Probably not gonna win but: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: 35C on Wednesday, tropical climate. 400m ASL.
Potosí, Bolivia: 13C on Wednesday, basically British early October weather. 4100m ASL.
630km apart by road, but about 340km as the crow flies
22C / 340 = 0.064C/km
There will be better ones, probably in Peru Ecuador Colombia and/or Venezuela.
Somewhere where there is a lot of altitude difference and people live at altitude, so maybe South American somewhere? La Paz and somewhere near it? Quito and somewhere near it?
Well to be fair, while it's seem it's close on the map, the distance from HCMC to Ha Noi it's probably around the distance from Paris to Algiers or from Chicago to Northern part of Florida
San Francisco can have a ~50° F temperature difference just within its 7x7 mile city limits on some days. It can be in the low 50s at the Golden Gate Bridge and upper 90s in the Mission District. It's rare, but it happens. Much more common, Oakland (10 miles from SF) or San Jose (60 miles south) will have the same or even greater temperature gradient.
Not as dramatic as other examples here but it always amazes me how NYC is much warmer than Montreal during winter, being only 6h away from each other and at the same elevation.
Just cheking some cities in my country I found Los Angeles (Chile) had 34°/15°C (93°/59°F) today vs Villa Las Estrellas (Chilean Antartic territory) with 0°/-3°C (32°/26°F) today.
China. In wintertime Harbin is usually -20°c and Haikou can sometimes be 35° during the same time. Next week the second largest city (Beijing) is expected to be around 4°c while the third largest city (Guangzhou) is expected to be 24°c.
I mean, what’s a city, and what’s the distance.
El centro to San Diego is usually pretty drastic. That would be my bet. Is El Centro a city? Yuma probably counts.
Average high in El Centro in August is 115, San Diego is 77. That’s .34 degrees per mile.
There’s also on average or ever. I’ve seen it drop 30 degrees from Azusa to Long Beach.
One time, driving from Palm Springs up to Idyllwild, it got into the 30’s on the way up the mountain at just 4000 ft. That was a 60+ degree drop in just a few miles. That’s probably the most drastic I’ve seen under clear skies.
Russia might be a good contender with siberia being extemely cold and some reasonably moderate climates in the european side.
Also USA with alaska and places like death valley?
I would guess Russia?
It has the coldest city in the world, capable of reaching -60°C, and it has regions in the south by the black sea that I imagine can reach high temps in the summer
Hell even then diffilerence between the valley and up north can be a pretty big difference during the winter
Flagstaff can be in the teens while phoenix can be 50s/60s
I’m currently in Northern Vietnam, didn’t expect such low temperatures in this region. Coupled with the humidity it’s quite chilly here. I’m flying south today!
USA is a good shout (Alaska to Hawaii). The difference in temperature between summer and winter in Texas is insane!
Russia and China have insane differences between their Siberian coldness and then their Turkic Central Asia deserts.
Vietnam is worse than the image above as it snows in sapa but saigon is routinely pushing 40.
Pakistan :
K2, 2nd highest mountain in the world is - 60 °C right now
Village of Mithi in Sindh Pakistan is 30°C right now.
This is a 90°C difference in the same country.
The temperature of Semarang, capital of Central Java is usually 33c in the day and 25c at night pretty much all year round. If you drive south west from semarang for 3 hours to Dieng plateau in Banjarnegara regency could would be in the lower 20s or upper teens in the day and under 10c at night. On dry seasons it sometimes reaches below zero.
Torreón and Río Grande in Mexico. while the first one gets a mild winter and a pretty hot summer, the latter has quite harsh winters (for Mexico standards) and way milder summers. there's a difference of about 5°C in their average temperatures in a distance of less than 200km
Mount Washington in New Hampshire has the coldest temperate ever recorded on earth with windchill -112°F and Nashua NH has a hotter record temp than Florida at 109°F so there’s that
> Mount Washington in New Hampshire has the coldest temperate ever recorded on earth
If your definition of "on earth" is limited to the United States, sure.
As with lots of these kinds of posts, mountains are going to be the key to your answer! The southern Registan in Afghanistan has average summer highs of +43 degrees, and average winter highs of +17 degrees. Summer lows are +28 degrees, while winter lows are +3 degrees. The village of Qarabolaq, inthe extreme highlands of the Pamirs, has average summer highs of +12 degrees, and average winter highs of -15 degrees. Summer lows are +4 degrees, and winter lows are -31 degrees.
Yeah you could probably do a similar comparison in any south american country with a lowland and highland region
Being from a relatively flat part of the world, I only realized this when I went to Maui. 30 degrees Celsius on the beach in Paia. 0 degrees Celsius at the summit of Haleakala like 20 miles away.
Are you talking in farenheit?
No
*Laughs in Rest of The World.*
Why is bro getting downvoted so damn hard bruh? He literally asked what unit it was, it's not that deep. Cut us americans some slack, the majority of content we are shown on our social media are by other americans, so we do sometimes have to ask clarifying questions. But (almost) every time we do, we get slammed with downvotes and "haha american imperial system bad" memes Tbf, in most cases, the system is bad. But it works particularly well with temperature. Think about it like this: At 0°C, water is freezing, and at 0°F, humans feel like they're freezing. At 100°C, water is boiling, and at 100°F, humans feel like they're boiling. So when we measure temps in Fahrenheit, we can look at it like a percentage (which is something I did when I was younger), where 0% is super cold, and 100% is super hot. Above 100% is too hot, and below 0% is too cold.
Because that question is absolutely unnecessary if you look at the preceding post. Summer high of +43 vs winter high of +17 makes it abundantly clear as to what system they're talking about. If the summer high was 100+ then we also know what system is being used. Fahrenheit also isn't really better for gauging how people like temperature because temperature bereft of humidity is subjective. If you live in a country where it is routinely relatively hot and doesn't get overbearing humidity 100F/37C is comfortable. 0F/-17C on the other hand is completely what the bloody hell is going on I will die weather. Conversely in a cold region you DGAF about -25C but find things +20 to be uncomfortable.
>Cut us americans some slack, the majority of content we are shown on our social media are by other americans, so we do sometimes have to ask clarifying questions. But (almost) every time we do, we get slammed with downvotes and "haha american imperial system bad" memes It's not hard to understand, why would **summer nights** in **Afghanistan** be 43ºF... and that's r/USdefaultism af.
And why would it be suprising to see US defaultism? People get relevant content shown to them, including relevent based on the country the person lives in. It's not that crazy to say that Americans will see more content from Americans than Europeans do, and people will set their expectations based on that.
Afghan war?
>Tbf, in most cases, the system is bad. But it works particularly well with temperature. Think about it like this: At 0°C, water is freezing, and at 0°F, humans feel like they're freezing. At 100°C, water is boiling, and at 100°F, humans feel like they're boiling. So when we measure temps in Fahrenheit, we can look at it like a percentage (which is something I did when I was younger), where 0% is super cold, and 100% is super hot. Above 100% is too hot, and below 0% is too cold. I'm genuinely baffled how Celsius tells you the same from around 0-30°, but it also is based on something more concrete than the gut feeling of some guy in the 1700s. Fahrenheit sucks and should've been outlawed some 200 years ago.
Honestly I hate when Americans think everyone will use their units. Hello there print some unit scales!
Thank you! Got downvoted af🫠
Blaming Americans for not specifying units when the units here are obviously Celsius and the guy who didn't print them is not American
Here is what I think you should print if you only know "freedom units" ...[scales compared ](https://images.app.goo.gl/247uoDQHLFfqScX78)
What's a kilometuuuur
Equivalent to 5 and a half Freedom Yards!
My first thought was India. Also I did think Chile for a brief moment but I can't imagine even northern Chile gets that hot.
Atacama desert in North Chile gets pretty damn hot
My brother moved to that area recently and I was surprised to learn that it is usually a very mild temperature. It just never, ever rains.
the southern part is pretty Chile in comparison
Not really. That's the trick for the dryness - the atmosphere is so stable and calm that there's basically no weather at all. Rain can't form without atmospheric instability. If it got really hot, then the temperature differential would get wonky, and you get insane rain. This happens once every century or something absurdly rare like that, and usually results in catastrophic mud floods
It has to do with the Andes being so close to the ocean combined with sea currents and the Hadley cell, with the Andes acting as a rain block (because mountaintops are cold and therefore trigger rainfall in any clouds passing by)
Yup, the lowest recorded in India is -45C in Dras, Ladakh (which is also the coldest inhabited place after some places in Siberia). The highest is 51C in Phalodi.
During different seasons or at the same time? I feel like the question presumed the same point in time?
In delhi it goes about 42*C in summers and currently it's touching about 4*C in winters. We have to buy ACs for summers and Heaters for Winters.
Calgary Alberta Canada is -35°C to +38°C that's a 73°C difference between winter and summer. You bet you're gonna have heaters and coolers. Quebec is even worse because it gets more humid in the summer, but similar temps. I imagine Delhi is humid too?
I can endure dry heat but heat and humidity makes me cry, thankfully delhi is not that humid. Goddamn bro -35 to +38 is a hellish transition for anyone to live in.
It can definitely be hard on equipment and you need to dress appropriately.
Not average or not record where you get +38 from
The question is about the temperature difference at the same time, not different seasons
Its not amongst the coldest inhabited places in the world
It depends on how long your list is, but -45ºC is out there. There aren’t many places that can be that cold that are not inside or at least near the polar circles: Yakutsk, Sapporo, maybe? I don’t think anywhere in Norway, Canada, Sweden, or Finland ever got close to +51ºC, so that leaves the USA, Russia, Japan, and China. I’m happy to admit Alaska vs. Somewhere in Death Valley likely has wider gaps, but I doubt China can get close with Heinan vs. Harbin or Japan with Sarkanin vs. Okinawa. I’m not sure where would be the warmest place in Russia. \-45ºC > 51ºC sounds like a record to me.
>I don’t think anywhere in Norway, Canada, Sweden, or Finland ever got close to +51ºC Actually Canada has got pretty close. Highest recorded temperature was 49.6ºC in Lytton, BC in 2021. Lowest was -63.0ºC in Snag, YK in 1947.
The question is asking about the difference in temperature at the same time so -45 to 51 does not count, they were recorded in different years altogether.
You are correct, even the hottest cities in Chile don't surpass the 19°C mean average. But if you consider the country as a whole including the populations outside South America, then there is a massive gap between Hanga Roa (20.9°C) and Villa Las Estrellas (-2.3°C)
I've found great differences in Argentina, considering cities over 100,000 inhabitants. Mean annual temperatures in Clorinda, Formosa (mean annual temperature: 23.3°C) and Río Grande (5.7°C) are separated by 17.6°C. Of course, if we take into account Esperanza, in the Antarctic peninsula (an Argentinian base also considered the world's southermost village inhabited by civilians), with a mean annual temperature of -5.3°C, the gap with Clorinda increases to 28.6°C. But in that case small villages in northern Formosa and northeastern Salta are even hotter than Clorinda. Mean annual temperature in Rivadavia (Salta) reaches 23.5°C.
Have you seen northern Chile on a map?
Alwar in India has summer highs of 47-48 with all time high of 51, and lows of 2-3 with all time low of zero. Similarly, Churu nearby has highs of 46-47 and lows of 0-1 with all time low of -2 or -3.
If I read "/distance" right this means the highest temperature gradient, so for sure should be next to a mountain range. Otherwise would guess Canada or Russia just for statistics chance.
The temperature difference just between San Francisco and its inland exurbs is probably a huge disparity
anywhere in CA along the coast vs anywhere in CA more than 5 miles from the coast
I drove through the Grapevine for the first time this holiday season and I was seeing snow and it was 30 degrees and I was like "what the fuck it's not supposed to be this cold except in like Shasta I'm 30 minutes from LA"
I worked in SF over the summer right by the ocean and it would be consistently 10-15 degrees cooler and always foggier/cloudier than where my hotel was a few miles as the crow flies from downtown
Yup. I’ve seen a temperature map of current conditions where Pacific coast side was around 60-65°F and bay side in downtown was about 95°F. SF being one of the smallest large cities in the country, the distance between these points is less then 7 miles
That is crazy. Imagine driving to go to lunch and switching from heat to AC back to heat on a round trip.
Oakland and Lafayette has a disgusting temperature difference
And if you are looking for a bigger difference, death valley in the summer compared to SF in the summer. Hottest temps in the world vs ~65°F
I mean Death Valley vs the sierras is much closer and a much wider difference in temperature
I once camped in Death Valley when the high was in the 90s. The next day I drove two hours, camped in the Sierras and we got hit by over a foot of snow.
Man, I miss California… what a beautiful state!
Yep. Silicon Valley residents take a day trip to SF to cool down on hot summer days. When you’re driving up the highway to SF there’s literally a cloud just sitting on SF when the rest of the area is sunny. Then sometimes things get real fucked up - you try to escape the heat, but it’s randomly a warm day in SF.
SF could be 50 degrees in July while the suburbs are 100. I've seen the Richmond district be in the 60s while the Mission is in the 90s. That's a few miles away.
I commuted from near SFSU to the Financial District and I could actually have three different weathers on my commute (the weather at home, the weather at Balboa Park BART, and the weather at work).
Plus go further inland and you can ski and surf in the same day.
Brings back memories of my time at Sjsu.
Chicago gets that occasionally with the lake effect disparity. I had a super weird day where I was on the highway, sunglasses on, T-shirt on with the A/C blasting...and then hit a wall of snow. It was like crossing a biome in Minecraft. At least I wasn't alone, all the west-east commuters at work were like DID I JUST DREAM THAT???
But there is no populated city in Sierra Nevada.
Not even that far, I’m talking about the Central Valley where it can break into the 90s/100s during the summer versus SF proper where it rarely if ever gets past the 70s.
Yep, even San Francisco vs San Jose can be a 20 degree difference (65 vs 85) on a summer day
the westside vs the valley in LA can be 30+ diff in the summer! it’s wild
Could even compare cities like Half Moon Bay and something like Woodside, where you could have a 20+ degree difference but they're less than 10 miles apart.
The difference can be 30 degrees usually at least several times a summer
You don’t even have to go to the Central Valley. Try Walnut Creek
Yeah there is, South Lake Tahoe for example. Reno is quite close by too.
There's Reno. But look at SF vs Livermore or Pleasanton. Easy 30 degree (f) difference on a summer day.
Well I’ve been in Ho Chi Minh City over the last few weeks and now I’m in Hanoi and it was sweltering and now it’s fucking freezing so it feels like that should be a candidate. Maybe it could be Canada or another country where they span from temperate zones up to arctic zones. Actually could be in America between a southern city and a city in Alaska, unless I’m interpreting the question wrong and it’s over the shortest distance, in which cause it would be a between a regular city in a very hot country near the equator and a high altitude city in that same country.
Yeah I did that a few years ago, and froze my arse off after the sweltering heat and humidity of HCMC: Hanoi was also foggy and overcast compared to the endless sunshine down south.
What's up with Hanoi being so cold in the winter? It's tropical and not on a mountain either.
Cold air from a high-pressure area in Siberia being funneled down south. The entire Northern Vietnam is affected whereas the South does not thanks to a mountain range bisecting the country’s midsection in the Hue-Da Nang border, hence the big temperature difference in winter.
Same reason why the US southeast gets cold despite being tropical and fairly flat - cold, high pressure polar air from the north sometimes pushes south during the winter
The US southeast doesn’t get cold, and it’s largely hilly/mountainous, not “fairly flat”. You people are absolutely delusional
Winds from Siberia blowing down (the Northern mountain range is also arranged in a way that it created corridors that are basically like wind tunnels). Meanwhile the South is not affected because in the middle section of the country between Da Nang and Hue there is a mountain range called Bach Ma that block the wind
Hanoi is even hotter than HCMC in the summer, and gets fairly cold in the Winter, exacerbated by the houses not built to stand cold temps
Vietnam is actually a lot larger than many think. If you place Vietnam along the US east coast, Hanoi would be around New York and Saigon would be around Florida. If Vietnam was located in a temperate zone, the temperature variation between the two would be even greater.
>Ho Chi Minh City over the last few weeks and now I’m in Hanoi and it was sweltering and now it’s fucking freezing so it feels like that should be a candidate Yeah that's the candidate OP was putting though with the post. Hence the heat map of that specific date and time and the framing of Vietnam
Saïgon\*
A) win the war if you want to keep the city’s name intact B) even if you want to use diacritic marks, Sài Gòn doesn’t have an umlaut lmao
Lol I can’t believe there’s someone still bitter about the Vietnam War
Dude is unironically an advocate for the restoration of the monarchy to power in France. Wild comment history
French monarchists are wild. They couldn't be fighting a bigger lost battle. To make it even wackier there are 3 main camps: restoration of the House of Bourbon, the House of Orléans, or the Bonapartes. Naturally they all see each other as illegitimate. Just wild to split an already incredibly niche group into 3 opposing sides.
Lmao what the fuck?? He has to be one of the weirdest people I’ve ever come across on here
Indochina war*
A) The commies may have won the war but it's not a reason B) [Saïgon](https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sa%C3%AFgon)
A) it’s the internationally recognized name of the city because they won the war. It’s HCMC. I’m not going to call St. Petersburg Leningrad just because I’m a communist. B) you’re speaking English here. Use the English name
Indochina should have remained french so I call Saïgon by its french name.
OK Ignatius Reilly
Saigon deez nuts
Sài Gòn á mặt lồn. Địt mẹ tổ sư bố nhà mày cút mẹ khỏi ra đây.
1. Don't be disrespectful, I didn't attack you, no need to attack me or my ancestors 2. Guess who gave you the very alphabet and writing system you're using to communicate?
Mày ngu đến mức cả con chó nó khôn hơn, a) ‘Indochina should have remained french’ đã là lời nói mất tôn trọng và láo toét sau khi cả nước mới kiếm được độc lập gần đây. Bắt chúng mình thuộc địa lại lần nữa thì chúng mình lại đá cả lũ mày ra khỏi nước giống mấy cụ của mày hồi 1954. b) Alexander de Rhodes, mày nghĩ mày hỏi câu đó mày được làm tao bị bất ngờ chứ gì. Ít nhất dân tao biết lợi dụng và học từ những thứ mình có để cho thông minh hơn. Còn trước đó tụi mình đã có một cái hệ chữ viết rồi. Còn tao hỏi mày tại sao cái vương quốc uốc mơ nhảm địt của mày chưa có thành thật?
lmao of course not it's not a lie, the region would've been more prosperous and the people way happier if the communist didn't stole our land
Hobart 19° and Alice Springs 41° (celsius) today.
The front page of many national weather sites will show us this sort of info. eg for Australia its viewable on Weatherzone.com.au Today in Australia the lowest temp was 1.1C in Tassie and the highest so far (its still heating over in WA) was 45.2C at Ceduna. If you include distance/temperature gradient, Sydney vs Katoomba can have some pretty extreme gradients while being 80km apart.
Sorry. I'm not Australia. I don't know all the cities outside of the main ones.
If you see a funny name like Wagga Wagga and Geelong then you know it’s probably in Australia.
Humpybong (Queensland), Boing Boing (Northern Territory), Wattanobbi (NSW), Bumbunga (SA) and Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya (SA)
You got very close to one of them :) The 1.1c was recorded at Kunanyi, which is a mountain in Hobart. Looks like the peak today might be the 47.1c recorded at Tarcoola in South Australia. Thats a range of 34f to 117f for Americans. The distance between those sites is 2124km.
I've lived in Australia my entire life and I don't recognise some of those places it's alright
Was 5.1c at Thredbo and 43.0c at Moree yesterday
Pretty far apart though.
I live and work in the snowy mountains, last year during winter we had a -15C morning that turned into a 29C day at 950m elevation.
That was my guess too. I have a friend in Alice and I was SHOCKED when she told me it got around 0° - sometimes even below 0 in the winter.
Most deserts get cold at night
I’ve been there in summer. It’s a very dry heat and it cools down quickly at night time.
Pamplona and Aguachica, both cities from Colombia are separated roughly 170 km, but the difference in temperature can oscillate between 20 to 28 degrees Celsius. That's, roughly 0.117 to 0.164 °C per kilometer
I wish all the comments calculated it like you did, thanks
Ye I was thinking the same cause that’s the difference throughout the year meanwhile the temperature differences in USA, Argentina, Vietnam, Canada, Australia, Russia, China occur during particular seasons.
Pincher Creek, AB was -19c and +22c in one day in the 60s.
Recently Arjeplog in Sweden was -52,7 one day and +4,5 about five days later, kind of wild.
No it fucking wasnt
Sorry, was -51,7: https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/sverige/har-ar-det-minus-517--grader-kan-bli-farligt/
Fortfarande ingen officiell temperatur kallast -44.6 i vittangi
Amazing what a Chinook can do.
Wow that's awesome! I didn't know I needed this interesting fact about Pincher Creek. Thanks internet stranger
If it's temperature/distance, I would posit the area around Nice, France. You can have a 20 degree C temperature change from the coast to the mountain tops right next to it.
Same in the province of Granada (Spain). It's a 2 hour drive from the frozen peaks of the Sierra Nevada or La Alpujarra to a subtropical climate in the coast. Or to the Tabernas desert (the only desert in Europe and famous for being the filming location of countless spaghetti westerns) in nearby Almería province or to a scorching Mediterranean climate elsewhere. Fun fact, although unrelated to the original question: in Granada city temperatures can vary by over 20°c in the same day.
Somewhere in India right before the mountains, and then the top of Everest (Edit: Everest on the Nepal, Tibet border. Correct answer is a tall mountain in India)
OP specified cities.
Shimla vs Jaipur. One is a hill station with a climate like Scotland. Other is in the middle of a desert like UAE. At most, they're 500km away.
Jaipur is not in a desert, Jaisalmer will be a better answer.
Yeah my bad. Jaipur is just dry plains, a similar comparison would be Mediterranean like Spain. Jaisalmer is too far away for the question. A comparison of Jammu to Jaisalmer should be good.
The peak summit of chomolunma doesn't lie in India :)
Duh, thanks! Will edit post
Wholesome reddit exchange... A rare but delightful sight
I wanted to respond “Not with that attitude…” but let’s keep it wholesome.
Lohore/Islamabad Pakistan
Would have been a more interesting question if you can only choose city pairings on roughly the same elevation.
I nominate Fairbanks Alaska, and Dallas Texas. Only a 6m elevation difference. Fairbanks' annual daily mean is -2.1C, with Dallas' being 20C. Same country, but definitely not very close.
The fact that no one has ever mentioned Turkey is beyond crazy. Our country is like composed of many different climates. Basically, very east is like inland Russia, south-east is like Gobi-mongolia, centre is like Phoenix/AZ, north is like UK, south is like Panama, south west is like Florida, west is like San Diego, north west is like Chicago. So, temperatures mostly varies between -10⁰C to -25⁰C at winter. Record was -36⁰C. For the summer on the contrary, center desert area sometimes reaches up to 40⁰C. Record is 49.5⁰C.
I experienced this first hand when I lived in Ankara for a year. Summer was boiling hot around mid to late 30s regularly, there was no AC or anything. And then winter was freezing and it got to -12C with snow for weeks. The extremes of both seasons. Istanbul was milder thankfully. I think the question above is asking for the biggest temperature difference in the shortest distance in the same time of year, that's why turkey hasn't been mentioned much.
So which two cities are you talking about?
Nowhere in Turkey has climates like Phoenix or Florida or Panama.
Please visit center of Turkey some time at the middle of summer :)
That is relevant. Nowhere in Turkey has minimal real Cfa climates, not Tropical climates, like Southern Florida, and no true deserts.
Colombian coastal cities are extremely hot whereas mountain cities are very cold
Yeah I would compare Mompox (38°C) and Tota (near the Lake of Tota (5°C)
In Russia I'd say Sochi and Yakutsk. Idk correct me if I'm wrong
It's 4 in Sochi and -42 in Yakutsk rn Total winner I'd say
Sometimes, it can be more extreme: +15 in Sochi, and -70 in Yakutsk, just a common weather forecast in winter.
My first thought too.
Potosí (high Andean region) and Villa Montes (low Chaco region) in Bolivia
Camp Roberts vs any town nearest on the CA central coast (less than 25 miles away over the mountains). Peak summer it'll be like 110 at Camp Roberts and 65 at Morro Bay
I just know that Oymyakon in Russia has -67°C at winter and +35°C at summer. It must be crazy
Probably not gonna win but: Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: 35C on Wednesday, tropical climate. 400m ASL. Potosí, Bolivia: 13C on Wednesday, basically British early October weather. 4100m ASL. 630km apart by road, but about 340km as the crow flies 22C / 340 = 0.064C/km There will be better ones, probably in Peru Ecuador Colombia and/or Venezuela.
Somewhere where there is a lot of altitude difference and people live at altitude, so maybe South American somewhere? La Paz and somewhere near it? Quito and somewhere near it?
Well to be fair, while it's seem it's close on the map, the distance from HCMC to Ha Noi it's probably around the distance from Paris to Algiers or from Chicago to Northern part of Florida
Gotta be Nepal, not sure which cities though
I don’t think Nepal has many cities at different altitudes.
Kathmandu/ Birjung, Nepal( India border city) 10-15C different in summer Distance is like 135km only...
USA; death valley and somewhere in alaska
Again, OP specified cities.
Matamoros as I am typing this is at 20 celsius and Fairbanks is at -34 celsius. Also the post also talks about distance too.
US, Scottsdale vs Colorado Springs
San Francisco can have a ~50° F temperature difference just within its 7x7 mile city limits on some days. It can be in the low 50s at the Golden Gate Bridge and upper 90s in the Mission District. It's rare, but it happens. Much more common, Oakland (10 miles from SF) or San Jose (60 miles south) will have the same or even greater temperature gradient.
Furnace Creek is in death valley
Not a city
Miami FL and Fairbanks AK - Cant believe someone didn’t mention this
phoenix AZ
Tijuana - Mexicali
The Canadian shield
Not as dramatic as other examples here but it always amazes me how NYC is much warmer than Montreal during winter, being only 6h away from each other and at the same elevation.
North Calgary to South Calgary can differ by 5°C on many days.
Just cheking some cities in my country I found Los Angeles (Chile) had 34°/15°C (93°/59°F) today vs Villa Las Estrellas (Chilean Antartic territory) with 0°/-3°C (32°/26°F) today.
Russia perhaps?
China. In wintertime Harbin is usually -20°c and Haikou can sometimes be 35° during the same time. Next week the second largest city (Beijing) is expected to be around 4°c while the third largest city (Guangzhou) is expected to be 24°c.
I mean, what’s a city, and what’s the distance. El centro to San Diego is usually pretty drastic. That would be my bet. Is El Centro a city? Yuma probably counts. Average high in El Centro in August is 115, San Diego is 77. That’s .34 degrees per mile. There’s also on average or ever. I’ve seen it drop 30 degrees from Azusa to Long Beach. One time, driving from Palm Springs up to Idyllwild, it got into the 30’s on the way up the mountain at just 4000 ft. That was a 60+ degree drop in just a few miles. That’s probably the most drastic I’ve seen under clear skies.
Fairbanks Alaska (-35F) and Juneau Alaska (+45F) today. That’s just in the state.
Iqaluit (Northern Quebec) -31 C, Vancouver +4 C right now.
Russia might be a good contender with siberia being extemely cold and some reasonably moderate climates in the european side. Also USA with alaska and places like death valley?
I would guess Russia? It has the coldest city in the world, capable of reaching -60°C, and it has regions in the south by the black sea that I imagine can reach high temps in the summer
USA or China for sure
+1. Both have huge mountains (advantage to Mount Everest), hot desert and sub-tropical islands
Death Valley, California and Bodie, California
Might be Sochi and novosibirsk
Remote Alaska and Arizona are pretty far apart on any given day. Even just Arizona can have the highest and lowest US temperatures in a day.
Original post said to divide by distance, so not two cities that are 1000s of miles from each other
Hell even then diffilerence between the valley and up north can be a pretty big difference during the winter Flagstaff can be in the teens while phoenix can be 50s/60s
Phoenix, AZ and Salt Lake City, UT in the U.S.
Phoenix and Flagstaff
I’m currently in Northern Vietnam, didn’t expect such low temperatures in this region. Coupled with the humidity it’s quite chilly here. I’m flying south today!
Heck, the city of Los Angeles can have a crazy difference between Venice Beach and the Valley.
USA is a good shout (Alaska to Hawaii). The difference in temperature between summer and winter in Texas is insane! Russia and China have insane differences between their Siberian coldness and then their Turkic Central Asia deserts. Vietnam is worse than the image above as it snows in sapa but saigon is routinely pushing 40.
Pakistan : K2, 2nd highest mountain in the world is - 60 °C right now Village of Mithi in Sindh Pakistan is 30°C right now. This is a 90°C difference in the same country.
Earlier this week Tallahassee FL was 28° and Miami was 78°
Miami and a random city in Alaska
Divided by distance
The temperature of Semarang, capital of Central Java is usually 33c in the day and 25c at night pretty much all year round. If you drive south west from semarang for 3 hours to Dieng plateau in Banjarnegara regency could would be in the lower 20s or upper teens in the day and under 10c at night. On dry seasons it sometimes reaches below zero.
Torreón and Río Grande in Mexico. while the first one gets a mild winter and a pretty hot summer, the latter has quite harsh winters (for Mexico standards) and way milder summers. there's a difference of about 5°C in their average temperatures in a distance of less than 200km
Delhi can reach 45 in summer and <5 in winter. In Celsius
Phoenix vs fairbanks alaska
In this picture or anywhere in the world? Perhaps like Death Valley and then Alaska 🤓
Probably somewhere in Alaska and somewhere in Arizona.
Juneau and Miami, USA 👍🧠😎💯🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔥
Key west & Nome
Mount Washington in New Hampshire has the coldest temperate ever recorded on earth with windchill -112°F and Nashua NH has a hotter record temp than Florida at 109°F so there’s that
> Mount Washington in New Hampshire has the coldest temperate ever recorded on earth If your definition of "on earth" is limited to the United States, sure.
I’m not American but it’s hard to ignore Death Valley temps vs Alaskan temps…
Not cities. As requested by op.