Climate Finder lets you pick a temperature, humidity, rain, air quality and busy-ness range and time period to match places based on your desired climate.
fantastic idea. think i have a big though. in the “ Cities that are warm, have clean air, comfortable humidity and have nomads there all year round”
link. i delete the “nomad” filter. ie i don’t care if there’s nomads there or not, and then it says zero results. when surely the results should increase by removing the # of filters
Hi PH!
I've been working on this for the last few months, collecting historical climate data like temperature and rain but also historical air quality average for all months in the year.
🤔 Problem
I'm trying to find a place to settle for longer which is relatively warm (but not too hot) all year round, not humid and most importantly with clean air.
I was in Chiang Mai recently and the air pollution had become so bad (~200 AQI), that I've been seriously thinking about my exposure to air pollution and how damaging it can be in the long term.
💡 Solution
The tool I made is called Climate Finder and lets you pick a temperature, humidity, rain, air quality and busy-ness range and time period to match places based on your desired climate.
☁️ Data
Temperature, rain and humidity data is from the past year. Air quality data is averages from the past few years. For about 80% of the cities I have monthly air quality data, for most of the missing 20% I use World Health Organizations' annual air quality average.
I have data for ~1,400 cities.
Thanks to @gabrielchuan for helping me collect the historical air quality data.
💬 Feedback
I'd love to hear your feedback because it's a work in progress. The next features I was thinking off is adding type line charts.
Let me know what you think!
-Pieter
@levelsio Hi Pieter! I was in Chiang Mai at the same time and thanks to your tweet, we bought some 3M masks ;)
Nice addition to Nomadlist. It's related to climate, but not only: I'd love to know if the place I'm going to has a higher likelihood of having a hazardous natural event like a typhoon, tsunami, earthquake, volcano eruption etc...
@levelsio very nice project, as everything you do! But by the way, what are your top 3 places to settle for longer period based on the information you collected so far?
@levelsio This is awesome!
I will share it with our community.
Quick feedback, any chance there could be a search field to find the city i'm looking for quicker? instead of scrolling or using the browser find option.
https://ibb.co/S7bzzDk
@rb242bs I'd say in terms of quality of live it'll be Spain, Portugal, Thailand or Bali. Thailand and Bali have a lot of work to do on fixing basics like air quality, freedom of speech, free courts etc.
@briodf I have that on the main site: https://nomadlist.com/places-wit..., I've selected no natural disasters, no earthquake risk, low terror threat and no armed conflict for you!
Love this, @levelsio! This is a really interesting way of visualizing the climate of a city. My only request would be if you could add a filter type for city or country name? I would love to be able to pull it up for places I know I'm going to visit in the next year so I can figure out when would be best to visit them.
@zackzachariah Yes, you can do that on the search on the main site: https://nomadlist.com. The monthly climate data is shown on each city page's under Nomad Guide!
This is really cool. Props! I've often thought about something like this that could essentially drill down ideal places to live, but taking into consideration a full-gamut of vital factors in addition to weather.
Oh I am looking for Weatherspark alternative. Climate Finder is promising! I usually want to know two things:
1. Given a specific month, where are places that have that month in its best-time-to-visit ranges (can be tricky, winter can be best or worst time)
2. Given a country, which months should I visit (I think this is the most common question)
+1 for adding graph next
@thomgroutars Hah yes, Nomad List main page is a bit too wieldy for this. This is easier to see. I hear lots of good stories about Lisbon, I think I'm going too
Congrats Pieter. Looks very promising. What about showing found cities on a map, too? It will provide an insight about the query. After clicking the marker on the map, it can scroll or expand to detailed info.
Awesome addition to Nomad List, well executed 👌Feature request: similar dashboard as this one but for allergies. It would be based on the type of plants that grow in an area and when. Not sure how feasible, reliable or worthwhile it would be to make but been wanting to build something like that myself for awhile.
@gvrizzo Hawaii does seem great. I'm not much of a car guy though, and I heard it's a lot of driving (like in US). Potentially Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Bali or some mix of those? :D
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