Cara

I'm looking to travel to a city where there is very low humidity and where it doesn't snow during the winter. Any suggestions please? I prefer a city that is medium in size, but the climate concerns me more. Thank you in advance.

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Pen

There's a response for you from Howard on your first try.

Maryanne

gjane8i Arizona

florida

New Mexico

Wisconsin is out.

Bob

Maryanne must be kidding when she says Florida since it's the humidity capital of America!

nycer

Parts of Arizona (around the Grand Canyon) and New Mexico (Santa Fe, Taos) get tons of snow in the winter.

But that general area certainly does have low humidity!

What about San Diego? It's been a few years since I've been but I always hear about how it has the most clement weather in the U.S.

Christie

How about San Antonio, Texas?

Christina

I think most of the California coast fits that description, as well as most of Southern California in general, except for the mountain areas where it snows. Medium size? Santa Barbara or Monterey or Palm Springs. Tucson in Arizona would fit this, also, I think.

xxx

Another vote for Tucson, Arizona.

Cathy

I vote for Arizona too. Tucson is great, and Scottsdale (suburb of Phoenix) is beautiful. You won't find better weather in the winter anywhere!

SDSam

I live in San Diego. San Diego does have the best climate in the US. The humidity decreases as you go inland. The humidity is definitely not as low as Arizona but is very comfortable 95% of the time. I lived in SE Florida for 8 years and found the humidity there very suffocating.

San Diego is the 6th largest city in the country so it is not medium sized. However it does not have the feel or ambience of a large city except at commute time on the freeways. It is a very clean, liveable city with a low crime rate. I also lived in Phoenix Arizona and liked it very much but the summers are brutal and the winter is colder than the San Diego area.

Cara

I wonder something. The heat during the summer in Florida is indeed suffocating. However, as high as the temps go in Arizona, I understand that you don't feel the heat as much as Florida, precisely due to the lower humidity. Is this a fact or myth? Thank you.

kalena

How about Santa Barbara? They recreate the Posadas at Christmas in the old town. Artsy community, close to San Diego, too.

SDSam

I lived in Phoenix. It is true that the drier heat is definitely more comfortable than high humidity for the same temperature. However dry or not, when the temperature is 110+ it is HOT. It is like being in an oven.

As previously mentioned, Santa Barbara is an excellent choice though it is not that close to San Diego.

Cara

At it's highest in the summer, how is the humidity/temp in Santa Barbara in august, for example???

I'll check online to see if I can locate it. Santa Barbara sounds nice..artsy and quaint...San Diego sounds....bigger....lol Thank you.

Christina

No place near the beach in California gets that hot in the summer, even if it is hot 20 miles inland. I used to live within a half mile of the beach in LA and no one in my neighborhood even had air conditioning, you don't need it. Once in a very great while it might be "hot" and get to be 85-90; but that would be maybe 1-2 days a year. I suppose some people would argue that being near the ocean air is "humid", but having come from the midwest, Wash DC, etc, living near the beach in California was "dry" to me. I suppose the air was not furnace dry like in AZ (thank god, those people cannot go outdoors much in summer) so your skin was not a prune, but it did not feel like Bangkok like the east coast humidity does, it felt dry to me; for instance, you did not sweat just walking around in the summer, but it never got that hot. Regardless of whether the heat is dry and thus feels better than a humid area (it is very dry in Denver, also, but it snows there), Arizona is extremely hot a large part of the year and I don't think you can be outdoors very much, it is too dangerous. Anyway, Santa Barbara will be in the 70s mostly as high temps in the peak summer months. I'm not sure where you can find stats on humidity or how to correctly compare them. It really depends if this is a very critical medical issue or just because you dislike humid places--if the latter, I don't think you will find the California coast humid. I detest Florida, for example, but love California.

Karen

I have lived in Phoenix all my life and would suggest Tucson over Phoenix, since you wanted a smaller city. I just returned from San Antonio and absolutely loved it, but found it to be very humid, even at this time of year...much warmer than Phoenix now.

kalena

I remember it being lovely.

http://www.santabarbaraca.com/flashindex.html

Any recent experiences there?

Don Smith

Is this for retirement?
I would suggest:
Green Valley, AZ (Tucson)
Casa Grande, AZ (Between Tucson and Phoenix)
Las Cruces, NM (El Paso, TX)
All seem to have some kind of retirement communities, suppport and are close to cities.