How much do you feel the passing of the seasons ?

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I noticed that many many people (in any country) think that Japan, Europe and the USA are basically at the same latitude. If this is true for Japan and the USA, the inhabited parts of Europe ranges from the Northern USA/Japan to Northern Canada. For example, the Northern Japanese city of Sendai is at the same latitude as Washington DC, but they are also at the same latitude as Malta or Gibraltar in Europe, and more south than Tunis or Algiers in North Africa. So, all major Japanese cities and the Southern half of the USA are at the latitude of North Africa.

Sapporo, Boston, Marseille and Florence are also at the same latitude, which clearly shows that the South of Europe is the top North of Japan or the US. London is higher than any Canadian city except Edmonton which is at the height of Manchester or Hamburg in Germany. Helsinki and Oslo are at the latitude of Alaska or the southern tip of Greenland.

See the attached map for more visual comparisons.

In tropical or semi-tropical places like the Southern US, Southern Japan and North Africa, the seasons are less well defined than north of that. The difference in day light is most marked the nearer one is from the poles.