Climate Comparison Visualization
A Tableau dashboard for comparing what it actually feels like to live in different cities.
In the middle of Covid, I was stuck at home in New York during a long, grey spring — the kind where you start Googling average temperatures in places you’ve never been just to feel something. I kept wondering: where in the world actually feels like the weather I want? Not just “warm,” but the whole picture — sunshine, temperature swings, seasonal rhythm.
So I built a Tableau dashboard to answer that question.
How It Works
The dashboard pulls historical climate data for cities around the world and lets you compare them side by side. You can look at monthly temperature patterns, sunshine hours, and get a sense of what living somewhere actually feels like across the year — not just the cherry-picked “average high in July” you find on travel blogs.
The most fun feature is the similarity ranking: pick a city you like, and it’ll show you the cities with the most similar climate profiles, ranked by how close their monthly patterns are. It’s how I found out that Porto, Portugal has surprisingly similar weather to parts of coastal California — the kind of thing you’d never guess without seeing the data.
The Dashboard
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Features
- Compare climate profiles across cities with monthly temperature and sunshine data
- Find the “most similar” cities to any given city, ranked by monthly distance
- See how and when different cities diverge in their seasonal cycles