About this site

The Climate Finder lets you specify the climate you want and finds the places, worldwide, that match. Search results are displayed on a map, and getting more information about a place is as simple as clicking on it.

Using the Climate Finder is completely free and no registration is required. Use it as a travel planner for your next vacation or for that once-in-a-lifetime round-the-world trip. Whether you're looking for the perfect beach weather, the ideal surfing conditions, a skiing holiday, retirement options, cool and cloudy fishing weather, comfortable t-shirt weather for a city sightseeing/shopping break, or just want to explore the diversity of climates around the world, the Climate Finder could be useful to you. Why not let the ClimateFinder help you decide where to go on vacation?

Whereas several other websites lets you look up the climate of a particular place, very few lets you do the reverse, i.e. find the places that match specific climate conditions. And those that do mostly only allow searching on temperatures, and only for a single month. The Climate Finder has far more flexible search features.

The Basic Search feature lets the user specify a climate that is "pleasant and sunny", "hot and sunny" or "cold and snowy", either in a particular month or throughout the year, and displays the places that match.

The Advanced Search feature allows an arbitrary number of criteria, each of which relates to one of the following nine monthly climate variables:
  • Average daily minimum temperature over the month
  • Average daily maximum temperature over the month
  • Average daily temperature over the month
  • The number of days with precipitation over the month
  • The number of days with ground frost over the month
  • Monthly precipitation
  • Average relative humidity over the month
  • Average sunshine, as a proportion of daylight hours, over the month
  • Average wind speed over the month
Each criterion can define either an upper bound or a lower bound for a variable, and each can relate to a single month, the whole year or any other combination of months.

The Climate Finder works equally well with US and metric units.

The thousands of locations in the Climate Finder database pretty well cover the globe. Most countries, and all continents with the exception of Antarctica, are represented.

Not all climate variables are measured and made available for all locations. Therfore, in order to provide a global search on all variables, the missing observations have been estimated using sophisticated mathematics. In other words, they are approximations. This means that the climate in the database may deviate somewhat from the actual climate. Therefore, while the approximations are generally very good, it's worth checking the actual climate statistics as measured locally before you book your ticket to your new dream destination. Historical climate data is easily available at several other sites, for instance www.worldclimate.com.

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