Cities with Nice Weather
I live near Toronto. It’s springtime, and currently about 30 °C. In my opinion, Toronto is too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. I’d like to know which cities have the least deviation from a tolerable average temperature.
Each row corresponds to a distinct city. There are two text columns containing each city’s name and country, twelve numeric columns indicating the “averages of the daily highs and lows” for each month, and one additional numeric column containing the same figure for the entire year. The units are degrees Celsius. 455 cities are included in the data.
“Average of the daily highs and lows” seems a bit ambiguous, but no matter. The article also points out that “the actual daytime temperature in a given month will be 3 to 10 °C higher than the temperature listed here, depending on how large the difference between daily highs and lows is.” It would be better to have detailed time series for each city, but we’ll press on with the data we have.
We’ll define the “deviation” mentioned above as the difference between the value recorded for the coldest and hottest months, and the “average” as the value recorded for the whole year overall.
