🇺🇸 Chicago vs 🇺🇸 San Antonio

Humid continental — cold harsh winters, hot humid summers, severe storms

Chicago lives up to its Windy City nickname. Lake Michigan creates its own microclimate — cooler summers and heavier lake-effect snow in winter. Summers are warm but brief; winters are among the harshest of any major American city.

San Antonio is America's seventh-largest city, a River Walk city where the San Antonio River provides a natural cooling corridor through the historic core. Summers are brutally hot with triple-digit temperatures common, but the city is large enough to span different microclimates from river valley to upland. Hurricane remnants from the Gulf occasionally bring tropical flooding.