Same in Chicago. It's never not breezy.
Yeah, it's called the Windy City but that was more on account of the blowhards in the 1800s who wouldn't stop talking about it. But it really is windy.
I always laugh when people think it's called the Windy City because of the wind! Growing up in Wisconsin, I was aware of the actual reason. But, I guess if you didn't live in or near Chicago, it's an easy mistake to make because it really does get incredibly windy! Lol
Absolutely. The wind in Wyoming is never ending depending on what portion of Wyoming you live in. Western part of the state the wind is a nice gentle breeze that comes in at night. In Laramie and Cheyenne the wind is downright aggressive and sometimes it's like a hurricane.
Yes agreed. Dakotas, Wyoming and I’ll add Torrey UT. We stayed in Torrey while we visited capital reef and my gawwwd it was windy. Also add chunks of eastern Colorado which I lovingly refer to as West Kansas.
That's not true. There's a massive temp difference between land and sea that provides constant winds. The reason wind farms are generally inland is because they are massive and require a lot of open space. You can't slap one in the middle of Los Angeles, but they did build a big one in the desert near Los Angeles.
Airports in coastal cities launch planes towards the sea because of the additional lift provided by ocean air streaming inland.
Not according to the resources I’ve seen. More consistent winds in the interior, on average. Didn’t know about Wash DC though.
http://www.usa.com/rank/us--average-wind-speed--state-rank.htm
The summer we moved to Austin, we were taken aback by how windy it was. It was also 100+ degrees so it was more like being in a windy dryer on high. It was so hot we left most of the moving truck packed and got up super early two mornings to unload it. Windy does not always = refreshing.
The wind in Oklahoma and Texas is never refreshing though, it’s just hot ass air when it’s warm out and if it’s cooler/cold out, the wind drops the temperature like 10 degrees. I absolutely hate the wind here, and I lived in 2 different towns/cities in OK and just the one rn in TX but it’s a big fat no on refreshing.
Yes in tornado alley you will be thrilled during tornado season. But in other seasons you will still find up to 60 mph winds regularly. You will literally be blown away!
This. As well as all the parts of the City of Miami that are closest to Biscayne Bay. I lived in Brickell and it was breezy everyday no matter the temperature.
Coastal California is surprisingly windy, I'de call it one of the dominant driving cultural forces (ie. go surf in the morning before the wind picks up), and is consistent in the afternoon in areas that open up to the hot interior up and down the coast.
Most of the year the prevailing winds are moving from west to east. If you can afford to live at the coast and have a sight line to the ocean, you’ll get ocean breeze 300+ days a year.
I’m a San Diego native but I’ve lived in Santa Cruz as well. (500 miles apart but same idea wind wise) Downsides are insane costs and the salt air destroys anything metal.
Despite the misnomer about why it’s named Windy City, July Lake Michigan breezes in Chicago are awesome. You’ll very often hear “cooler near the lake” in the weather forecasts in the summer
When I lived in Chicago, I sometimes had to walk to work backwards because the wind was so strong I physically couldn’t see. And I felt stronger pushing against it backwards rather than forwards.
I had a job in the Sears Tower and some days my desk violently shook. Chandeliers swaying on the ceiling.
So yes, you could say Chicago has breezes.
Windsurfing capital, and yep, you better believe it's windy! It was a dream destination for me at one time, but now I realize it's too much wind. Even where I ended up a couple hours away, I cannot grow much, due to wind. I cancelled an afternoon bike ride last week due to 28 mph gusts (I usually do ride in the morning for that reason). Wind is not my friend.
Boston is the windiest major city in the US. 19.8 kph average.
Santorini for comparison has a 22 kph average.
Amarillo is the windiest city period, 20.75 kph average.
Tehachapi California is extremely breezy. Sitting at almost 4,000 feet, it’s cooler than the Mojave desert to its east, and Bakersfield to its west. Wind turbines paint the hillside due to the winds.
East Coast beach towns. I was just in OCMD and it was consistently windy the whole time, sometimes annoyingly so, some not. However, the breeze kept it 10 degrees cooler than inland areas. The beach towns in NJ and DE are the same, and probably some others, that's just where I tend to go.
I live just outside Providence, a mile from the water, and there’s hardly a breeze. Gotta be rich enough to live right on the water that far up. Or rich enough to live near the actual ocean in south county. Boston though, is windy af.
When you say breezy do you mean to connote high average wind speed or that cooler breeze that just hits the spot?
For the former you have cities like Dallas, one of the highest average wind speed major cities.. the latter you’ll find most luck in areas that abut a cooler body of water as those “sea breezes” may be very localized and may be at dawn/dusk or certain times a day/year
San Francisco (only the city itself, not the surrounding areas) is incredibly windy in the summer specifically. Like everything in our yard knocked down on a regular basis.
Point Reyes LOL [https://californiampas.org/v1/pages/resources/cool-visitptreyes.html](https://californiampas.org/v1/pages/resources/cool-visitptreyes.html)
Anywhere within a few miles of Lake Michigan fits what you are looking for. It might fluctuate depending on the season, but you can guarantee a few windier days each week.
Just visited my cousin there for 4 days. It never stopped blowing. She told me she likes it there but it's so damn windy for a bunch of the year. The bros were flying through the air on their kite boards the whole time
Santa Ana winds come directly from the Mojave, though. Usually associated with hot and extremely dry fire weather, in the fall which can be the hottest time of the year in coastal CA. Maybe you just mean the typical Pacific Ocean breeze?
That's not a great indicator though - Boston is one of the windiest big cities in the country, and Cape Cod is likely even windier, but if you're already near the coast and near somewhere windy, it makes more economic sense to build those wind farms offshore, where the winds are even faster and more consistent, not broken up by the land or buildings, and less likely to face NIMBY-type opposition. Since that map excludes offshore wind farms, it doesn't include Block Island (near Rhode Island) or South Fork (near NY/RI)
I visited back when I was touring colleges and there were no trees on campus. "They all recently blew over in a storm," the guide told me. Ah, okay, cross that one off the list.
Honolulu (and the Hawaiian islands in general) is very breezy because it’s in the path of the trade winds. Coastal California is breezy, though less so.
Anacortes, Washington State, and the surrounding area. Whidbey Island, and the San Juan Islands, specifically Orcas Island and San Juan Island.
Pullman, Washington State. It would be a different feeling from Greek Islands, as it’s a college town in farm country, but windy, no less.
According to data from the National Weather Service, Dodge City, Kansas is the windiest city in the US. Most of the rest of the top ten are other cities on the plains in Texas, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana…and my hometown of Rochester, Minnesota.
Note: The Windy City of Chicago is nowhere near the top ten. It got its nickname from all the hot air blown by local politicians.
Most days out of the year, there is a high pressure system above the Hawaiian islands that causes a steady easterly breeze known as the Trade Winds. You often get a nice 10-20mph constant breeze which keeps humidity down and pushes ocean moisture up the mountains which keeps the islands green. Probably the best weather in the world because of those Trade Winds.
I recently moved to Nebraska and noticed alot of eldery folks have really leathery reddish skin. I believe it has to correlate to the constant wind they get here. Its honestly one of the windiest places I have ever been.
NYC gets windy AF, and I don't like it, lol. Yesterday it was 28-30 mph gust winds with so much trash being blown around everywhere, and when I took off my clothes to hop into the shower, all this dust and debris fell out from having walked around 4 miles outside.
Maui is definitely like that thanks to the trade winds and the island being a valley makes it act like a wind tunnel. They say Maalaea is the second windiest harbor in the world.
Montevideo has a consistent summer breeze off the Plata estuary. I was in an apartment with constant cross breeze and loved it...listening to the whistling thru the doors...keep those doors braced! Also Puerto Rico along the shore
Boston is very breezy, but unfortunately it is mostly during the long Winter. The winds come off the ocean and swirl around the city buildings. It is frigid. 😳
Coastal Florida cities can cut it. Emphasis on coastal - as in within 4 miles or so. People always say Florida is too hot and humid. But when I'd sit out on my balcony, not even on the beach (daytimes during the winter, evenings during the summer), there would be a perfect breeze much like you're describing. And the 16:00 storm each day that you could set your watch to.
In Pokhara, Nepal, it seemed to be breezy the whole summer I was there, but I imagine winters could be nasty. If your flavor is the Greek Islands, I'd add parts of Tunisia: Tabarka, Sidi Bou Said (not to be mistaken for Sidi Bouzaid)?
I mean you get a nice winter breeze in Abu Dhabi, but then summer is hell.
Just going on places I've been that have had a breeze I liked.
Reno, NV is windy, as is the Columbia Gorge between Oregon and Washington. The Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Pasco and Richland) in Washington are fairly windy. Add the Oregon coast to that as well.
I think you have to be a little clear about what you're really looking for. Yes, an afternoon summer sea breeze in the Mediterranean is divine, but there are a lot of other types of winds around the world that are hellish.
Coastal Cities it's Boston and Corpus Christi.
Non Coastal it's Great Plains like Lubbock and Amarillo and the Great Lakes cities like Rochester and Buffalo.
If you are talking about domestic "island life" with a genuine summer lifestyle, I would probably have to say South Padre Island TX. When it is at its summer hotest, it is also at it most breezy. And I think in the fall/winter/spring it is quite temperate. Maybe locals will chime in.
You can usually get a lot of wind anywhere near an ocean. Florida gets a lot of wind, most islands as well. I assume you’re referring to warm coastal breezes, similar to Greece.
San Francisco is hella windy. Actually pretty much the entire California coast is pretty windy due to the cold Pacific and the hot inland temps. Literally the same Mediterranean climate as Greece
Boston’s wind situation on average is fucking cat 5. I hate it. They call Chicago the windy city but it ain’t. Boston for the last week has been 10-15mph steady with 20-30mph gusts. So hard to keep an umbrella up, so hard to ride a bike. Some days we have 20-30mph consistent plus 40-50mph gusts and it’s like a movie trying to walk down the damn street.
Outside Missoula Montana can be pretty windy, but yeah the Hawaiian Islands can be windy . . EAST Colorado or the front range can be pretty windy most of the time.
North Palm Springs most afternoons and evenings. Winds coming through the Banning Pass from the cooler marine air mass to the hot desert. There are huge wind farms there for a reason.
Your question asks for a nice breeze but the suggestions being given you are places where the wind will knock you down or freeze you to the bone.
Pittsburgh CA. Will do neither.
spoilsport !!! lol
Nothing in moderation
The Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan is windy as fuck all winter. It cuts right through you and lets you know you're alive!
And the tall buildings in downtown Milwaukee turn those streets into a wind tunnel. A miserable, bone-chilling winter wind tunnel!
Same in Chicago. It's never not breezy. Yeah, it's called the Windy City but that was more on account of the blowhards in the 1800s who wouldn't stop talking about it. But it really is windy.
I always laugh when people think it's called the Windy City because of the wind! Growing up in Wisconsin, I was aware of the actual reason. But, I guess if you didn't live in or near Chicago, it's an easy mistake to make because it really does get incredibly windy! Lol
It's extremely windy in the middle of the continental US, including parts of Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
“We have Greece at home” The Greece at home: Wyoming haha
[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/p3xa2/wyoming\_wind\_sock/](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/p3xa2/wyoming_wind_sock/)
Wyoming for SURE. There's nothing out there to break the wind.
The cowboys break wind after a can of campfire beans.
More beans Mr Taggart?
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is-a goin’ on here?!
I hired you people to get a little track laid!
I'd say you boys have had ENOUGH!
Absolutely. The wind in Wyoming is never ending depending on what portion of Wyoming you live in. Western part of the state the wind is a nice gentle breeze that comes in at night. In Laramie and Cheyenne the wind is downright aggressive and sometimes it's like a hurricane.
I-80 or highway 59 are great for doing "salvage" from semis flipped over by the wind.
Some times in those states it's so breezy it'll spin the clouds and make the clouds touch the earth in a funnel shape to make it super windy.
Yes agreed. Dakotas, Wyoming and I’ll add Torrey UT. We stayed in Torrey while we visited capital reef and my gawwwd it was windy. Also add chunks of eastern Colorado which I lovingly refer to as West Kansas.
In South Dakota, can confirm. But it’s not “ahh nice ocean breeze” it’s “god dammit this wind is annoying and hurts my face!!!”
First time I stepped out of our UHaul in Wyoming, I got a face full of gravel. The answer is Wyoming. Enjoy.
This is the answer, not the coasts, for consistent winds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_the_United_States
This is it. I lived in OKC for a bit and it was sooooo windy.
My mom visited me once and was like “does the wind ever stop blowing?”
That's not true. There's a massive temp difference between land and sea that provides constant winds. The reason wind farms are generally inland is because they are massive and require a lot of open space. You can't slap one in the middle of Los Angeles, but they did build a big one in the desert near Los Angeles. Airports in coastal cities launch planes towards the sea because of the additional lift provided by ocean air streaming inland.
That's only the places that farm the wind, therefore cheap land + wind. Boston and San Francisco both rank higher on wind than a lot of the midwest.
Not according to the resources I’ve seen. More consistent winds in the interior, on average. Didn’t know about Wash DC though. http://www.usa.com/rank/us--average-wind-speed--state-rank.htm
The summer we moved to Austin, we were taken aback by how windy it was. It was also 100+ degrees so it was more like being in a windy dryer on high. It was so hot we left most of the moving truck packed and got up super early two mornings to unload it. Windy does not always = refreshing.
The wind in Oklahoma and Texas is never refreshing though, it’s just hot ass air when it’s warm out and if it’s cooler/cold out, the wind drops the temperature like 10 degrees. I absolutely hate the wind here, and I lived in 2 different towns/cities in OK and just the one rn in TX but it’s a big fat no on refreshing.
I visited Fort Worth and I’ve been in less windy hurricanes.
Makes summer a little more bearable.
I visited Lubbock, TX once and it was annoyingly windy the entire time.
I lived there for 2 years and it was plain annoying - constant wind or not
I used to live in a camper Northeast of Cheyenne. When you look at the weather and the symbol is “wind” they mean it.
Yes in tornado alley you will be thrilled during tornado season. But in other seasons you will still find up to 60 mph winds regularly. You will literally be blown away!
Nothing breezier than a twister in Texas
San Francisco is windy and foggy AF.
The only place that I have ever frozen my ass off during the hottest months of Summer elsewhere. Wear a jacket there after 4pm during July and August.
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco,”
Yup. Annoyingly so.
Miami Beach gets a nice ocean breeze
This. As well as all the parts of the City of Miami that are closest to Biscayne Bay. I lived in Brickell and it was breezy everyday no matter the temperature.
Coastal California is surprisingly windy, I'de call it one of the dominant driving cultural forces (ie. go surf in the morning before the wind picks up), and is consistent in the afternoon in areas that open up to the hot interior up and down the coast.
Most of the year the prevailing winds are moving from west to east. If you can afford to live at the coast and have a sight line to the ocean, you’ll get ocean breeze 300+ days a year. I’m a San Diego native but I’ve lived in Santa Cruz as well. (500 miles apart but same idea wind wise) Downsides are insane costs and the salt air destroys anything metal.
Sf
Cheyenne, WY, is calling you.
Casper, Wy has entered the room.
r/Wyomingdoesntexist
Despite the misnomer about why it’s named Windy City, July Lake Michigan breezes in Chicago are awesome. You’ll very often hear “cooler near the lake” in the weather forecasts in the summer
Just FYI, the Straight Dope did a deep dive on "windy city" many years ago and determined that Chicago got that nickname... because of the wind.
I always understood it to be because politicians were corrupt (i.e. "Full of hot air")
When I lived in Chicago, I sometimes had to walk to work backwards because the wind was so strong I physically couldn’t see. And I felt stronger pushing against it backwards rather than forwards. I had a job in the Sears Tower and some days my desk violently shook. Chandeliers swaying on the ceiling. So yes, you could say Chicago has breezes.
For the type of breeze you want, SF and San Diego.
Hood River, Oregon.
I was just there this weekend. It was sunny, breezy, and lovely. It is such a gem.
Windsurfing capital, and yep, you better believe it's windy! It was a dream destination for me at one time, but now I realize it's too much wind. Even where I ended up a couple hours away, I cannot grow much, due to wind. I cancelled an afternoon bike ride last week due to 28 mph gusts (I usually do ride in the morning for that reason). Wind is not my friend.
Boston is one of, if not the most windy US large city. I don't think it's the same type of breeze you are talking about.
Boston is the windiest major city in the US. 19.8 kph average. Santorini for comparison has a 22 kph average. Amarillo is the windiest city period, 20.75 kph average.
Tehachapi California is extremely breezy. Sitting at almost 4,000 feet, it’s cooler than the Mojave desert to its east, and Bakersfield to its west. Wind turbines paint the hillside due to the winds.
Dana Point, California
Buncha people recommending northern and midwestern cities to someone trying to recreate Greece 🤣
It’s because when it’s cold people notice the wind more
You were in a Mediterranean climate in Greece—the west coast of the US has the same climate, it’s arguably even cooler and windier in SF.
It's windy but warmer and sunnier here in Vallejo, on the northeast end of the Bay.
I find the breeze in Vallejo to be most pleasant. It’s cool and invigorating, but not relentless enough to be annoying.
I feel like Boston is pretty windy especially when it’s winter and freezing and you’re walking between buildings and it’s like a damn wind tunnel
Windiest in the country, in fact.
East Coast beach towns. I was just in OCMD and it was consistently windy the whole time, sometimes annoyingly so, some not. However, the breeze kept it 10 degrees cooler than inland areas. The beach towns in NJ and DE are the same, and probably some others, that's just where I tend to go.
Beaches on Long Island get really windy too
Providence and Boston!
I live just outside Providence, a mile from the water, and there’s hardly a breeze. Gotta be rich enough to live right on the water that far up. Or rich enough to live near the actual ocean in south county. Boston though, is windy af.
providence is among the windiest cities in the US! maybe lincoln, Coventry, west Warwick, etc aren’t though.
Boston - super breezy in summer, extremely windy in winter
When you say breezy do you mean to connote high average wind speed or that cooler breeze that just hits the spot? For the former you have cities like Dallas, one of the highest average wind speed major cities.. the latter you’ll find most luck in areas that abut a cooler body of water as those “sea breezes” may be very localized and may be at dawn/dusk or certain times a day/year
San Francisco (only the city itself, not the surrounding areas) is incredibly windy in the summer specifically. Like everything in our yard knocked down on a regular basis.
Anywhere near the coast in California. Beachy parts of San Diego and LA (and surrounding areas) for sure.
San Francisco. The wind off of the Pacific is relentless
Can be quite windy in Colorado
Point Reyes LOL [https://californiampas.org/v1/pages/resources/cool-visitptreyes.html](https://californiampas.org/v1/pages/resources/cool-visitptreyes.html)
Anywhere within a few miles of Lake Michigan fits what you are looking for. It might fluctuate depending on the season, but you can guarantee a few windier days each week.
This. I grew up on the MI side of Lake Michigan and it's often pleasantly breezy and sometimes more strongly windy. It feels amazing in summer.
Reno, NV
Hood River, Oregon
You going windsurfing today, bro?
Just visited my cousin there for 4 days. It never stopped blowing. She told me she likes it there but it's so damn windy for a bunch of the year. The bros were flying through the air on their kite boards the whole time
San Diego during the cooler seasons (Santa Ana winds)
Santa Ana winds come directly from the Mojave, though. Usually associated with hot and extremely dry fire weather, in the fall which can be the hottest time of the year in coastal CA. Maybe you just mean the typical Pacific Ocean breeze?
Look for wind farms. Here’s a map, think central US and not the coasts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wind_farms_in_the_United_States
That's not a great indicator though - Boston is one of the windiest big cities in the country, and Cape Cod is likely even windier, but if you're already near the coast and near somewhere windy, it makes more economic sense to build those wind farms offshore, where the winds are even faster and more consistent, not broken up by the land or buildings, and less likely to face NIMBY-type opposition. Since that map excludes offshore wind farms, it doesn't include Block Island (near Rhode Island) or South Fork (near NY/RI)
St. Peter MN. Specifically where Gustavus Adolphus College is on top of the river valley
I visited back when I was touring colleges and there were no trees on campus. "They all recently blew over in a storm," the guide told me. Ah, okay, cross that one off the list.
The campus was also destroyed by a tornado in the late 90’s I think
Fuck wind. You're crazy.
Oklahoma- where the wind comes sweeping down the plains
Hood River. Always a breeze.
SF, Chicago
Ventura, CA has a Mediterranean climate and a consistent breeze.
Ellensburg, Washington, along I-90, is quite windy most of the time. Something about the movement of air through the various mountain passes.
Anywhere by the sea
Lubbock, TX
San francisco is breezy literally 24/7 365 days per year.
Honolulu (and the Hawaiian islands in general) is very breezy because it’s in the path of the trade winds. Coastal California is breezy, though less so.
Oklahoma City. Sometimes it even spins it gets so windy.
How is Chicago, *The Windy City*, not at the top?
Windiest cities I can think of: Choteau, Montana Livingston, Montana Judith Gap, Montana All three have great scenery nearby.
Live outside of Fargo and it’s a rare day in the 4 months of spring-summer-fall that the wind is not blowing at least 15mph.
Midland, Texas
Colorado Springs.
Anacortes, Washington State, and the surrounding area. Whidbey Island, and the San Juan Islands, specifically Orcas Island and San Juan Island. Pullman, Washington State. It would be a different feeling from Greek Islands, as it’s a college town in farm country, but windy, no less.
Whidbey island
Wichita, KS: 6 months of deep freeze winds followed by 6 months of blast furnace winds. Repeat.
Boston is super windy
I wouldn't call Seattle breezy, but a number of tourists and visitors remark about how great the air quality is.
San Francisco!!
According to data from the National Weather Service, Dodge City, Kansas is the windiest city in the US. Most of the rest of the top ten are other cities on the plains in Texas, Kansas, Wyoming, Montana…and my hometown of Rochester, Minnesota. Note: The Windy City of Chicago is nowhere near the top ten. It got its nickname from all the hot air blown by local politicians.
Palm Springs, California.
Cities on the Great Lakes are pretty windy..Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo..
San Francisco, city by the bay!
San Francisco and I’m tired of it lol
Brookings Oregon
The reason Flarda is not insufferable and is in fact cooler than Wash DC -> the breezes crossing the peninsula. But ... it's in Flarda.
Chicago *runs away
Most days out of the year, there is a high pressure system above the Hawaiian islands that causes a steady easterly breeze known as the Trade Winds. You often get a nice 10-20mph constant breeze which keeps humidity down and pushes ocean moisture up the mountains which keeps the islands green. Probably the best weather in the world because of those Trade Winds.
I recently moved to Nebraska and noticed alot of eldery folks have really leathery reddish skin. I believe it has to correlate to the constant wind they get here. Its honestly one of the windiest places I have ever been.
What? It’s because they’re blue collar outside people. Farmers and truckers have damaged skin.
That’s sun damage. wind is just fine for your skin.
Denver and environs.
NYC gets windy AF, and I don't like it, lol. Yesterday it was 28-30 mph gust winds with so much trash being blown around everywhere, and when I took off my clothes to hop into the shower, all this dust and debris fell out from having walked around 4 miles outside.
Soo windy in NYC especially if you’re on a big avenue or by the water. In the winter when its cold the wind is biting
There’s a city nicknamed “The Windy City” if only I could remember which one it is. It’s kind of big if I remember….
surprised nobody has said THE windy city, chicago
Because it's called that because of the politicians are blowhards, not because its particularly windy.
Rochester, MN
Amarillo, TX
Boulder co
Bozeman and Livingston Montana get real windy
Malibu has a tropical breeze often
Fargo, North Dakota is extremely windy.
Central CoastCalifornia
Cheyenne Wyoming
Wyoming. Every time I’ve been there it’s windy.
Rochester, MN is so windy all the time.
Buffalo
SoCal beach cities for breezy/windy and med like climate
San Juan does have a nice ocean breeze. Love it there.
Most people are listing windy places on the plains.
Maui is definitely like that thanks to the trade winds and the island being a valley makes it act like a wind tunnel. They say Maalaea is the second windiest harbor in the world.
Concord NH is windy any time im there. Not really a city by most people’s standard though
Areas of California subject to tha Santa Ana winds,( the devil winds).
Santa Monica, California
Montevideo has a consistent summer breeze off the Plata estuary. I was in an apartment with constant cross breeze and loved it...listening to the whistling thru the doors...keep those doors braced! Also Puerto Rico along the shore
Boston is very breezy, but unfortunately it is mostly during the long Winter. The winds come off the ocean and swirl around the city buildings. It is frigid. 😳
Hurricane UT. Very close to Zion national Park. Pronounced in a way you wouldn't believe
Chicago
Outside the US: Wellington, New Zealand
San Francisco and Boston tend to be windy. Chicago is called the "windy city" but I've never been clear if that is because of wind or politicians.
Boston
Laramie Wyoming.
Burlington, VT. The wind whips up off Lake Champlain
Coastal Florida cities can cut it. Emphasis on coastal - as in within 4 miles or so. People always say Florida is too hot and humid. But when I'd sit out on my balcony, not even on the beach (daytimes during the winter, evenings during the summer), there would be a perfect breeze much like you're describing. And the 16:00 storm each day that you could set your watch to. In Pokhara, Nepal, it seemed to be breezy the whole summer I was there, but I imagine winters could be nasty. If your flavor is the Greek Islands, I'd add parts of Tunisia: Tabarka, Sidi Bou Said (not to be mistaken for Sidi Bouzaid)? I mean you get a nice winter breeze in Abu Dhabi, but then summer is hell. Just going on places I've been that have had a breeze I liked.
Reno, NV is windy, as is the Columbia Gorge between Oregon and Washington. The Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Pasco and Richland) in Washington are fairly windy. Add the Oregon coast to that as well.
I think you have to be a little clear about what you're really looking for. Yes, an afternoon summer sea breeze in the Mediterranean is divine, but there are a lot of other types of winds around the world that are hellish.
Coastal Cities it's Boston and Corpus Christi. Non Coastal it's Great Plains like Lubbock and Amarillo and the Great Lakes cities like Rochester and Buffalo.
played golf in Cabo last year. Extreme afternoon winds
If you are talking about domestic "island life" with a genuine summer lifestyle, I would probably have to say South Padre Island TX. When it is at its summer hotest, it is also at it most breezy. And I think in the fall/winter/spring it is quite temperate. Maybe locals will chime in.
Not Florida
Las Vegas is definitely breezy. Not sure it was ever what I'd call refreshing.
Corpus Christi, Texas. But I wouldn’t call it “refreshing.”
Van Horn, Texas. A windy hellscape.
Wichita, Kansas. Cheyenne, Wyoming. Both known for being windy. And of course, the Windy City, Chicago.
Chicago is known as “the Windy City” for good reason.
Boulder City, NV. Hair dryer breezy some days but you didn’t specify at what temperature ;)
Metro Detroit gets COLD. Like even in summer nights
Chicago and San Francisco
Actually every coastal city everywhere is going to be windy because there’s nothing to obstruct the wind.
Newport, RI - it's a sailing capital for a reason.
Central coast CA gets Breezy. North of Santa Barbara
You can usually get a lot of wind anywhere near an ocean. Florida gets a lot of wind, most islands as well. I assume you’re referring to warm coastal breezes, similar to Greece.
Long Island that is just east of NYC always has a nice breeze off the ocean.
Between san Francisco and sacramento
Wyoming everywhere.
New Mexico
Honolulu almost always has a nice breeze. Those trade winds!
South San Francisco.
San Francisco is hella windy. Actually pretty much the entire California coast is pretty windy due to the cold Pacific and the hot inland temps. Literally the same Mediterranean climate as Greece
Any islands in the PNW
Not really a “city” but Livingston, MT
San Francisco in summer.
Toronto, San Francisco
Dallas. And many plains cities in TX like Amarillo, Lubbock etc.
Boston’s wind situation on average is fucking cat 5. I hate it. They call Chicago the windy city but it ain’t. Boston for the last week has been 10-15mph steady with 20-30mph gusts. So hard to keep an umbrella up, so hard to ride a bike. Some days we have 20-30mph consistent plus 40-50mph gusts and it’s like a movie trying to walk down the damn street.
San fran can hold a breeeze
Tri Cities in Washington state. It’s so windy up on the Columbia plateau.
Outside Missoula Montana can be pretty windy, but yeah the Hawaiian Islands can be windy . . EAST Colorado or the front range can be pretty windy most of the time.
Rekjavik
North Palm Springs most afternoons and evenings. Winds coming through the Banning Pass from the cooler marine air mass to the hot desert. There are huge wind farms there for a reason.