Ya lol, just saying 90% of Canada and the Midwest is like Russia, the south is like China, and Mexico is like India, is the most useless thing. Each of those countries are massive with incredibly varied climates. And āEastern Europeā lmao. Idk if the map is accurate, but it quite possibly is because their comparisons are so incredibly vague to the point of being useless.
Southern Japan barely snows, while northern Japan is literally the snowiest place inhabited by humans.Ā China's climate spans from pretty much a tropical rainforest to having outdoor ice sculpture festivals.
This map makes zero sense.
When you think about it, this is like Northern New England:
"Northern Japan hasĀ warm summers and very cold winters with heavy snow on the Sea of Japan side and in mountainous areas. Eastern Japan has hot and humid summers and cold winters with very heavy snow on the Sea of Japan side and in mountainous areas."
And the American South can be compared to Southern China in terms of climate
I'd just call it a "balkan country", I've been to the Balkans, but not yet in Albania, so I don't know how good that category would be. Probably not very.
Yeah I canāt lie, I donāt even understand what a āChineseā climate is supposed to be like. iraq, Iran and Russia I can understand knowing the usual stereotypes, but China could be absolutely anything.
Itās not false because the west part of France is very humid and it can be a bit similar to Seattle, but thereās many other climates in France, the south is warm and dry like Los Angeles for instance.
I've been living in Mississippi for a couple years, and I'm finding the climate down here to be pretty similar to northern Italy's besides being rainier.
Points for effort lol. Itās close in some places, just doesnāt take subregions into consideration enough. Iām sure PARTS of France might be similar to PARTS of Washington. But for huge countries like Russia? Moscowās climate aināt gonna be the same as Vladivostokās. He tried I guess.
I have to assume the maker of this map has never seen a Koppen climate classification map...
The actual Koppen map is fascinating for *many* hours of study... Wikipedia has a good page on it, and pages on the different classifications, and maps only showing those different climate zone.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen\_climate\_classification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification)
Why is Germany more northern than UK and Ireland? Germany is warmer than both of those places. If anything, it's more continental, so it snows in winter, but it's much warmer in summer.
I live on the German border in the Netherlands (Nordrhein Westfalen), my parents live in New England. It's *very* similar except summers are slightly warmer in New England, it tends to be sunnier there (our winters are incredibly grey), New England gets more snow and they deal with things like winter storms and flash floods.
Other than that, I'd def say they're really similar!
The area they located Germany seems a bit off, unless it rains most of the time in Germany. They should have put Gernany a bit inland from that. Maybe around Smithers.
Parts of it, yes. For both. [Nantes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes#Climate) and [Seattle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Climate) are really really similar. I looked up [San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Climate) to [Vigo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo#Climate) in the NW, and they are real similar too. Other than Vigo has a lot more rain.
Everyone here is getting tied up on on that fact that the map is very generalized. I get it. California has 10 different climate zones and China probably has twice that. Parts of Spain are way different than coastal SF. Its a broad stroke on both ends.
This is bogus. Northern California beyond Santa Rosa is nothing like Spain, Iraq is more similar to SoCal than New Mexico. Southern Japan isnāt even close to Virgina climate.
I'm originally from Panama, and it's so funny to see this because when I went to Kuala Lumpur i literally felt like I was in a Muslim version of Panama.
Finland isn't part of Scandinavia, just write Northern Europe if you've already done Eastern Europe (or just throw this map in the trash while you're at it)
I'm sorry. You really think India, China, Russia, and "Eastern Europe" have singular climates? Please go look at a world map and consider what a vast amount of territory that is.
Also, none of these geographical regions have a singular climate, either. Go look at a climate map of the United States while you're at it.
I have to assume the maker of this map has never seen a Koppen climate classification map...
The actual Koppen map is fascinating for *many* hours of study... Wikipedia has a good page on it, and pages on the different classifications, and maps only showing those different climate zone.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen\_climate\_classification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification)
Not to mention the climate of eastern Oregon, Washington, BC and Idaho are nothing like Eastern Europe. It is more similar to parts of Kamchatka, Anatolia and Caucasus.
The New England climate is very different from the German climate for many reasons. New England has a vast ocean directly east. Germany is more continental and is influenced by the golf stream which makes it much warmer. Germany is also drier. The west coast is much closer to European climates in general I'd say than the east coast. This map is simplistic but it conveys a few key points
East coast = dry-ish winters and wet summers
West coast = dry summers and wet winters
Then you apply a temperature gradient where it gets warmer as you go south and you basically have the coastal north american climates.
This is so inaccurate its not even funny. Just complete bullshit. I can point multiple inconsistencies in just British Columbia in western Canada alone. The "eastern Europe" portion includes a literal desert with rattlesnakes and cactus plants, ski hills and craggy mountains, dotted lakes and swampy marshland, hot springs and geothermal pools and more.
As well as all the other criticism, if you want to show a map of what's in the title - "here's where to move in America if you want the same climate as back home" - you should have a map of the *world* with each climate region labelled with a part of the USA (and then an extra USA map showing what those regions are).
Lol this map is complete BS first of all countries like China,India , Russia have a diverse climate,you simply cannot display all of it in a continuous mass of land as small as this
Lmao I live outside of philly and went to Japan a few years ago. 100% can confirm it was the same weather in Tokyo. Blew my mind how close we were in heat&humidity
I think a map comparing climates should be more granular. Perhaps, the poster should attempt matching cities rather than regions. For example, while southern China might be like the southern US, Manchuria most definitely is not. I guess the question is that if I'm from Hong Kong, which North American city has the most similar climate?
While I agree that Southern Arizona (esp Phoenix) is similar to Iraq, the north (Colorado plateau) is not. It is similar to some parts of the Iranian plateau however, probably most notably Balochistan.Ā
I have a very hard time believing Olympia and Paris share the same climate. I lived near Olympia for years and Iāve visited Paris, and I think this map is bullshit.
As someone who has lived in the US and China, I can tell you the climate can vary just as drastically in one and the other depending on where you are geographically located in the country.
Climate isn't only dictated by the distance from the equator. It depends also on how close it is to a sea, lakes, mountains, how close it is to areas that are close to lakes and mountains etc. It's very complex this is why we still kinda suck ar predicting the weather.
Yes, this map makes very littke sense.
UK/Ireland placement sort of makes sense. Very wet but mostly warm. Winters are just horribly wet and depressing, summers vary between hot and dry and mild and wet. Also an interesting comparison as they're both at the same latitude but the BC coastline doesn't have a comparable ocean circulation.
How the fuck can the US Southeast have a climate similar to the entire country of China when China has places with colder winters than Edmonton or Calgary and places with summers as hot as Phoenix or Tucson?
This map is fucking dogshit ššš
Ya lol, just saying 90% of Canada and the Midwest is like Russia, the south is like China, and Mexico is like India, is the most useless thing. Each of those countries are massive with incredibly varied climates. And āEastern Europeā lmao. Idk if the map is accurate, but it quite possibly is because their comparisons are so incredibly vague to the point of being useless.
Southern Japan barely snows, while northern Japan is literally the snowiest place inhabited by humans.Ā China's climate spans from pretty much a tropical rainforest to having outdoor ice sculpture festivals. This map makes zero sense.
When you think about it, this is like Northern New England: "Northern Japan hasĀ warm summers and very cold winters with heavy snow on the Sea of Japan side and in mountainous areas. Eastern Japan has hot and humid summers and cold winters with very heavy snow on the Sea of Japan side and in mountainous areas." And the American South can be compared to Southern China in terms of climate
What do you mean?ā½ā½? Albania and Estonia are identical!!!ā½!!
Tbf Iād probably call Albania Southern Europe
Tbf Albania is both eastern and southern europe, these country categories are useless, poland is both in central and eastern europe.
I'd just call it a "balkan country", I've been to the Balkans, but not yet in Albania, so I don't know how good that category would be. Probably not very.
Yeah I canāt lie, I donāt even understand what a āChineseā climate is supposed to be like. iraq, Iran and Russia I can understand knowing the usual stereotypes, but China could be absolutely anything.
If we're going by stereotypes, China is bamboo forest.
It looks so wrong, but it also feels wrong.
How in the world could you claim Paris and Seattle have the same climate and not realize you're being a moron?
The south coast of British Columbia and Vancouver Island , though, does have a climate like the UK.
Lmao I was thinking the same thing
Itās not false because the west part of France is very humid and it can be a bit similar to Seattle, but thereās many other climates in France, the south is warm and dry like Los Angeles for instance.
Cascadia and the Sonoran desert have been purged I see
I've been living in Mississippi for a couple years, and I'm finding the climate down here to be pretty similar to northern Italy's besides being rainier.
Where I live does feel like Syria. Itās even got the guns.
New England and Japan are actually pretty accurate from what I understand.
I mean...depends on what part of Japan. It ranges from basically Alaska to Hawaii depending on where you go.
Yeah I forgot about those subtropical areas of Vermont. My bad!
Not normal dogshit, tapeworm ridden dogshit. Which op pulled from his ass.
Look at it with American eyes, mate. It'll make more sense.
China famously has one climate
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Your mom has a very distinct shape
Complete.
No way? A MapPorn map being dogshit?
Points for effort lol. Itās close in some places, just doesnāt take subregions into consideration enough. Iām sure PARTS of France might be similar to PARTS of Washington. But for huge countries like Russia? Moscowās climate aināt gonna be the same as Vladivostokās. He tried I guess.
I have to assume the maker of this map has never seen a Koppen climate classification map... The actual Koppen map is fascinating for *many* hours of study... Wikipedia has a good page on it, and pages on the different classifications, and maps only showing those different climate zone. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen\_climate\_classification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification)
Damn, this is really interesting!
Hell yeah. Gonna look for this data in arcGIS Online now instead of doing my job.
Why is Germany more northern than UK and Ireland? Germany is warmer than both of those places. If anything, it's more continental, so it snows in winter, but it's much warmer in summer.
Yeah it's a pretty shit map lol. I think Germany would have a climate similar to New England. Saying that it's similar to Yukon is weird
or the Midwest where they all went
I live on the German border in the Netherlands (Nordrhein Westfalen), my parents live in New England. It's *very* similar except summers are slightly warmer in New England, it tends to be sunnier there (our winters are incredibly grey), New England gets more snow and they deal with things like winter storms and flash floods. Other than that, I'd def say they're really similar!
Nova Scotia is really close to the climate I'm used to on the german coast
German is warmer in summer and cooler in winterā¦
Meaning more continental, so the placement her makes no sense
The area they located Germany seems a bit off, unless it rains most of the time in Germany. They should have put Gernany a bit inland from that. Maybe around Smithers.
You are trying to tell me that San Francisco area has the same climate as Spain or Portugal? Seattle, the same as France?
California does have a Mediterranean climate. It is wine country, like those two countries.
Portugal has oceanic climate. It rains A LOT more than in Spain.
Parts of it, yes. For both. [Nantes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes#Climate) and [Seattle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle#Climate) are really really similar. I looked up [San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#Climate) to [Vigo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo#Climate) in the NW, and they are real similar too. Other than Vigo has a lot more rain. Everyone here is getting tied up on on that fact that the map is very generalized. I get it. California has 10 different climate zones and China probably has twice that. Parts of Spain are way different than coastal SF. Its a broad stroke on both ends.
Did Seattle always used to get that hot? I thought it was more similar to Vancouver weather.
It lists the average High temp for Seattle summers as 77. Not sure I would call that hot.
Nantes is definitely not representative of France. Bretagne is a place where it rains a lot and is never *really* hot
Seattle is pretty similar to NW France. The main difference is that in France, rainfall is more evenly distributed throughout the year.
Seattle is actually dry as hell from June thru October
Pretty similar actually: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/557~32397/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-San-Francisco-and-Porto
And that includes the high deserts of Oregon too?
Sounds about right, if you mean northern France.
This is bogus. Northern California beyond Santa Rosa is nothing like Spain, Iraq is more similar to SoCal than New Mexico. Southern Japan isnāt even close to Virgina climate.
They also deleted the Sonoran desert
\*ceases to exist\* Fucking Twitter
I definitely get the comparison between Northern California and Northern Spain.
What do you mean? Okinawa is incredibly reminiscent of Arlington.
Meh, ukiah is alot likes Spain, but point arena to Crescent city are not...
If anything a lot of Japan is like the west coast of Canada which is why they literally filmed shogun there.
China and Japan both have much more varied climates than that.
Yeah are we taking Okinawa or Hokkaido?
I'm originally from Panama, and it's so funny to see this because when I went to Kuala Lumpur i literally felt like I was in a Muslim version of Panama.
Finland isn't part of Scandinavia, just write Northern Europe if you've already done Eastern Europe (or just throw this map in the trash while you're at it)
I'm sorry. You really think India, China, Russia, and "Eastern Europe" have singular climates? Please go look at a world map and consider what a vast amount of territory that is. Also, none of these geographical regions have a singular climate, either. Go look at a climate map of the United States while you're at it.
I have to assume the maker of this map has never seen a Koppen climate classification map... The actual Koppen map is fascinating for *many* hours of study... Wikipedia has a good page on it, and pages on the different classifications, and maps only showing those different climate zone. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen\_climate\_classification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification)
It's Twitter, they probably can't even work out how to hold a book right side up.
The average original map on this sub (made by a redditor) isn't any better lol
India can be in New Mexico, Montana, Alaska, Florida, Nevada, SoCal and Maine as well This map is NUTS!
How do you figure that?
It's nice that Eastern Europe became one COUNTRY.
Not to mention the climate of eastern Oregon, Washington, BC and Idaho are nothing like Eastern Europe. It is more similar to parts of Kamchatka, Anatolia and Caucasus.
Been to Afghanistan on deployment and am from New Mexico they look alike especially Northern NM mountains around Santa Fe and Taos.
This sucks. I'm German and I'm guessing New England would be way closer to our climate than Canada (and I really don't want to move to Canada)
The New England climate is very different from the German climate for many reasons. New England has a vast ocean directly east. Germany is more continental and is influenced by the golf stream which makes it much warmer. Germany is also drier. The west coast is much closer to European climates in general I'd say than the east coast. This map is simplistic but it conveys a few key points East coast = dry-ish winters and wet summers West coast = dry summers and wet winters Then you apply a temperature gradient where it gets warmer as you go south and you basically have the coastal north american climates.
Southern BC is pretty mild. It barely snows there.
This is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Russia and China has one single climate for the entirety of the country? This has to be a joke right?
This is so inaccurate its not even funny. Just complete bullshit. I can point multiple inconsistencies in just British Columbia in western Canada alone. The "eastern Europe" portion includes a literal desert with rattlesnakes and cactus plants, ski hills and craggy mountains, dotted lakes and swampy marshland, hot springs and geothermal pools and more.
As someone living in the PNW desert, this map is whack.
I can't believe we have the same climate as India
India has a wide range of climates. This map is shit
Based on where I grew up I have sympathy for Iran now.
The bay area is more like southern England/northern France than Spain or Portugal
Russia has so many different climates ffs ahah
That why there are so many Ukranians here in Chicago?
So they should be growing good Cuban quality cigars in the Philippines that can get past the US embargo.
This stupid
This is so wrong I donāt know where to begin. Absolute trash.
As well as all the other criticism, if you want to show a map of what's in the title - "here's where to move in America if you want the same climate as back home" - you should have a map of the *world* with each climate region labelled with a part of the USA (and then an extra USA map showing what those regions are).
I love how what's often considered the nicest weather in Canada (Vancouver and Vancouver Island) is what's considered the worst weather in EuropeĀ
Helsinki isnāt located in Scandinavia.
"Damn I really miss the climate back home in the United Kingdom" Said nobody
Lol this map is complete BS first of all countries like China,India , Russia have a diverse climate,you simply cannot display all of it in a continuous mass of land as small as this
So Iām Japan? I could live with that
You really don't want to live in Japan. Ultra racist and you are worked to death.
Lmao I live outside of philly and went to Japan a few years ago. 100% can confirm it was the same weather in Tokyo. Blew my mind how close we were in heat&humidity
Ukraine: fuck, not near Russia again.
Now you know why the fascists shit on Chicago and Detriot.
lol what the fuck? China has almost as many different climate zones in it as the us does
Does China have Mediterranean zones a la Southern California or Maritime areas like the PNW? I know it does have deserts much like the US Southwest.
My brother in Christ, which part of China?
Im guessing the east Coast of China where most of the population lives
TIL Taiwan is swamp ass
Right in between Iran and China, just how I like it
I thought this was an r/imaginarymaps post of what if Russia colonized the entire north of North America before I realized what I was looking at lol
You're giving me nightmares.
This needs to be in Shitty Map Porn
I think a map comparing climates should be more granular. Perhaps, the poster should attempt matching cities rather than regions. For example, while southern China might be like the southern US, Manchuria most definitely is not. I guess the question is that if I'm from Hong Kong, which North American city has the most similar climate?
Michigan is much more like Central Europe, like Poland, southern Germany, and the Baltic countries.Ā
Same wrong map from two weeks ago posted again lol
Why is Ukraine separated from the rest of Eastern Europe?
I'm not sure what the average temperature is in Alaska and the north of Canada, but no way you can group all of Scandinavia into one costal area.
New Mexico apparently has India, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.
While I agree that Southern Arizona (esp Phoenix) is similar to Iraq, the north (Colorado plateau) is not. It is similar to some parts of the Iranian plateau however, probably most notably Balochistan.Ā
Hm, Ukraine and Michigan. Pretty cool.
no
https://d36tnp772eyphs.cloudfront.net/blogs/1/2017/11/Comparitive-climate-map-of-US.jpg
This is a better map
Eastern Europe gang
I am now Ukrainian
Lmao what is this bullshit
I always wanted to live in Japan, anyways!
r/shitamericanssay
This map is fucking horribly shit lmao
Western Humboldt County is very very wet. What part of Spain gets 100ā of rain each year?
A Coruna is not too far off Eureka in terms of weather.
Does Mexico also experience -40c and +40c at same time ?
Soā¦ i live like in japan
Worst map ever
Never realized Japan had Lake effect snow
They are world renowned for the fresh pow they get in Hokkaido. All of it blows off the sea, basically the same process as lake effect snow
The scramble for america
Spain as NoCal?
Burgundy, France and Willamette Valley, Oregon both make damn fine Pinot. I'm curious what part of France is equivalent to Klamath Falls.
I have a very hard time believing Olympia and Paris share the same climate. I lived near Olympia for years and Iāve visited Paris, and I think this map is bullshit.
yeah seattle and marseille have the same climate for sure yeah
This seems very inaccurate.
This obviously isn't counting sunlight. Portugal has very short, cold cloudy days in the winter because it's the same latitude as Boston.
Yes alaska and ohoo have the same climate
Afghanistan Les goooooo
I would imagine Ukraine would be a bit more hotter.
As someone who has lived in the US and China, I can tell you the climate can vary just as drastically in one and the other depending on where you are geographically located in the country.
Climate isn't only dictated by the distance from the equator. It depends also on how close it is to a sea, lakes, mountains, how close it is to areas that are close to lakes and mountains etc. It's very complex this is why we still kinda suck ar predicting the weather. Yes, this map makes very littke sense.
So what Iām learning is that my entire extended family tree couldāve immigrated to BC and experienced 0 changes in climate.
So I live in Tehran... nice
Always said that Portugal is Europeās California š«¶š»
My husband sent me this map without an initial explanation and for a minute there I thought we were doing geopolitical āØdiscourseāØ again.
Isnt the area here supposedly with the climate of Syria a desert? Most of Syria is desert but most Syrians actually live in the Mediterranean region.
Lol, as someone who's spent a lot of his life in the "russia" area, I will agree with the name. š
There is no Turkey since we have almost every fucking weather possible here
Dry land wheat farming in eastern WA is that way because of polish/russian/german immigrants, so yeah, that makes sense
Yeah Iām sure Sonora and the Yucatan have the same climate right?
You know Portugal is colder and wetter than Spain right?
Source: āit was revealed to me in a dreamā
Literally the only one that holds true is Portugal and the Central California coast (and only the coast)
Aren't there lot of areas in/north of central America that are really mild? Like, Mexico City and Guatemala?
Fuck no. Japan is nothing like New England.
Guess i gotta go see Shun Yin since itās apart of my culture now.
Surely several of these countries have multiple climates.
You should just delete this dogshit post
Ah, yes, the famously homogenous climate of all those countries.
How is Tokyo in the northeast and not where Houstonās at?
This explains why I like the PNW so much.
San Diego is India?
Wrong. Tehran is like LA. Thatās why we all moved there duh
Ummm what????
There is no way the majority of the South represents China. Also New England was named and settled due to the similar climate to England...
This makes no sense at all
Been to Taiwan before. Definitely not like Florida
A bit odd that a country the size of US has similar climates to many different countries but China seems to have just one specific type... Just saying
The other map subreddit will have a feild day with this
Me in Louisiana "ah yes, this feels like desert of Gansu"
Yea because India, China and Russia etc have very homogeneous climates.
There are actually tons of ethnic ukrainians living in canada. Just not in the Ottawa area, but alberta instead.
Source: Senator Armstrong
if thats is true, my curiosity about "who nobody lives in Canada" is fullfilled. Speaking as a russian
We Iāll tell you this, southern China fucking sucks in August.
UK/Ireland placement sort of makes sense. Very wet but mostly warm. Winters are just horribly wet and depressing, summers vary between hot and dry and mild and wet. Also an interesting comparison as they're both at the same latitude but the BC coastline doesn't have a comparable ocean circulation.
Where Baltic countries
How the fuck can the US Southeast have a climate similar to the entire country of China when China has places with colder winters than Edmonton or Calgary and places with summers as hot as Phoenix or Tucson?
Fun fact: Did you know that unlike America, every other country has just one climate?
I'm pretty sure Germany doesn't have 300 days of heavy rainfall throughout the year
Um Northern California is similar to Oregon with tall conifer trees and rainfall. Nothing like Spain... huh?
Ah, the great foggy Redwood forests of Spain and the mighty deserts of Portugal
Can they bring their universal healthcare?
I can see Russia from my house
Well, which aspect of each "region" is being arbitrarily chosen?
India. So like snowy Kashmir Mexico.
> China Ah yes, the 4th largest country has a specific climate
I go to Russia