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CityCompass
Best time to be here: June to August. Every month below carries its climate normals and a comfort score you can tune to your own tolerances.
Dots are the other cities we cover here. Click one to switch.
Days 4 °C, nights -2 °C
75 h sunshine · 8.6 h daylight
75 mm rain · 91% humidity
Days 6 °C, nights -2 °C
107 h sunshine · 10.0 h daylight
59 mm rain · 88% humidity
Days 11 °C, nights 1 °C
173 h sunshine · 11.6 h daylight
74 mm rain · 83% humidity
Days 16 °C, nights 5 °C
200 h sunshine · 13.4 h daylight
75 mm rain · 79% humidity
Days 20 °C, nights 10 °C
212 h sunshine · 14.9 h daylight
118 mm rain · 79% humidity
Days 24 °C, nights 14 °C
252 h sunshine · 15.7 h daylight
105 mm rain · 77% humidity
Days 25 °C, nights 15 °C
261 h sunshine · 15.4 h daylight
107 mm rain · 76% humidity
Days 25 °C, nights 15 °C
233 h sunshine · 14.1 h daylight
110 mm rain · 77% humidity
Days 21 °C, nights 11 °C
193 h sunshine · 12.3 h daylight
79 mm rain · 80% humidity
Days 16 °C, nights 7 °C
140 h sunshine · 10.6 h daylight
94 mm rain · 86% humidity
Days 10 °C, nights 2 °C
79 h sunshine · 9.0 h daylight
77 mm rain · 90% humidity
Days 5 °C, nights -1 °C
56 h sunshine · 8.3 h daylight
87 mm rain · 91% humidity
Living in Basel means living under Switzerland's tax and legal system. The essentials, from our country research:
Would Switzerland actually work for your taxes?
It runs regimes like Lump-Sum Taxation (Forfait fiscal / Pauschalbesteuerung / Imposition d'apres la depense), and whether they fit depends on your income, assets and citizenship, not on averages.
Each month scores 0 to 10 from four weighted components: temperature (35%), sunshine (25%), humidity (20%) and rain (20%), with an extra penalty when heat and humidity combine. Personal tolerances reshape the score: your heat limit compares to how afternoons feel (heat index), your cold limit to typical nights. Data: NASA POWER climatology 2001-2020 with elevation corrections, daylight computed from latitude.
City data: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) · Climate normals: NASA POWER (2001-2020) · Live weather: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
CityCompass
Best time to be here: June to August. Every month below carries its climate normals and a comfort score you can tune to your own tolerances.
Dots are the other cities we cover here. Click one to switch.
Days 4 °C, nights -2 °C
75 h sunshine · 8.6 h daylight
75 mm rain · 91% humidity
Days 6 °C, nights -2 °C
107 h sunshine · 10.0 h daylight
59 mm rain · 88% humidity
Days 11 °C, nights 1 °C
173 h sunshine · 11.6 h daylight
74 mm rain · 83% humidity
Days 16 °C, nights 5 °C
200 h sunshine · 13.4 h daylight
75 mm rain · 79% humidity
Days 20 °C, nights 10 °C
212 h sunshine · 14.9 h daylight
118 mm rain · 79% humidity
Days 24 °C, nights 14 °C
252 h sunshine · 15.7 h daylight
105 mm rain · 77% humidity
Days 25 °C, nights 15 °C
261 h sunshine · 15.4 h daylight
107 mm rain · 76% humidity
Days 25 °C, nights 15 °C
233 h sunshine · 14.1 h daylight
110 mm rain · 77% humidity
Days 21 °C, nights 11 °C
193 h sunshine · 12.3 h daylight
79 mm rain · 80% humidity
Days 16 °C, nights 7 °C
140 h sunshine · 10.6 h daylight
94 mm rain · 86% humidity
Days 10 °C, nights 2 °C
79 h sunshine · 9.0 h daylight
77 mm rain · 90% humidity
Days 5 °C, nights -1 °C
56 h sunshine · 8.3 h daylight
87 mm rain · 91% humidity
Living in Basel means living under Switzerland's tax and legal system. The essentials, from our country research:
Would Switzerland actually work for your taxes?
It runs regimes like Lump-Sum Taxation (Forfait fiscal / Pauschalbesteuerung / Imposition d'apres la depense), and whether they fit depends on your income, assets and citizenship, not on averages.
Each month scores 0 to 10 from four weighted components: temperature (35%), sunshine (25%), humidity (20%) and rain (20%), with an extra penalty when heat and humidity combine. Personal tolerances reshape the score: your heat limit compares to how afternoons feel (heat index), your cold limit to typical nights. Data: NASA POWER climatology 2001-2020 with elevation corrections, daylight computed from latitude.
City data: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) · Climate normals: NASA POWER (2001-2020) · Live weather: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)