Local geography of your dream climate?

A picture is 1,000 words. New Florida, my dream climate continent shown as a relief map with the latitude and longitude.

This map shows North New Florida only, however, so a few cities are not represented. I prefer the cities of North New Florida anyway.

^ Great climate, brisbane summers and syndey winters

Climate charts:



1. What is it's latitude?
~33°N
2. What is it's elevation?
Main city is 1,900 feet (579 meters) above sea level, and highland satellite city is located at 8,200 feet (
3. What is its population?
1.8 million in the city proper, and 8.7 million in the surrounding metropolitan area.
4. How far from an ocean is it?
700 miles (1,126 kilometers) northwest of a coastline flanked by a warm-water current.
5. Is there a significant body of water (ocean, lake, river) nearby?
There are large lakes throughout the metropolitan region that provide with lake-effect snow in the winters, and the confluence of two navigable rivers just southeast of the city center.
6. Is there a mountain range nearby
The city is flanked by high mountains (>12,000 feet/3,657 meters) to the northwest and west that block most winter westerlies. This mountain range has a readily accessible satellite city that would serve as a refuge from the scorching dry summers and monsoon humidity.
7. What is the primary vegetation type?
The region is full of Indian deciduous plants such as sal, teak, bamboos, and figs, as well as Palearctic species such as pines, oak, maple, beech, cedar, elm, and walnut. The primary floristic kingdom present in the region is the Indian kingdom but plant species from the Irano-Turanian and Eastern Asiatic floristic kingdoms are also present in large numbers. The highlands are mostly filled with alpine plants such as rhododendrons, bamboo, oak, pine, fir, spruce, cedar, yew, larch, birch, maple, elm, walnut, cypress, juniper, etc.
8. What is it's biome?
The local biome in the lowlands is a transition between temperate broadleaf and mixed, temperate coniferous and subtropical dry forest. Because of the cold winters and the hot dry summer, many trees do not keep leaves from November to late June. In the highlands, the main biome is temperate coniferous forest, and in the subalpine areas, there exists mostly temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, with some montane grasslands and shrublands.
9. What is the local wildlife?
The local fauna is comprised of a mixture of Palearctic and Indomalayan species, and the distribution varies based on elevation. In the lowlands, the most famous mammals are tigers, leopards, lions, Asian elephants, Asiatic black and sloth bears, macaques, langurs, Indian bison, gazelle, various deer species, wolves and jackals, and rhinoceros. In the mountains, the famous mammals are brown and Asiatic black bears, snow leopards, wolves, lynx, red pandas, wild caprids, Eurasian bison, yaks, elk, and wild donkeys. The bird life varies by season, but the resident birds are reflective of the species resident in the Indian subcontinent and Central China. Reptilian, amphibian, and other species are also reflective of the species resident in the northern Indian subcontinent and Central China.

1. 88 S
2. 3800 meters above sea level
3. 10 000 humans, 100 non human entities
4. 1400 kilometers.
5. Water does not exist in liquid form
6. No
7. No vegetation
8. Polar ice cap
9. Bigfoots, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, emperor penguins and SCPs anomalies

Well, my latest dream climate isn't based on any particular geography but I'll give these questions a go.

What is the geography of your dream climate? Thought this was an interesting thread on cd.

Questions:
1. What is it's latitude? Probably 35-40°.
2. What is it's elevation? Sea Level
3. What is its population? Me.
4. How far from an ocean is it? Very close
5. Is there a significant body of water (ocean, lake, river) nearby? Ocean
6. Is there a mountain range nearby No
7. What is the primary vegetation type? Subtropical foliage
8. What is it's biome? Dense subtropical foliages
9. What is the local wildlife? Super bats

1. 24ºS, 151ºE (On a planet with a 18º axial tilt, receiving 5% less stellar flux than Earth). It is on the east coast of an island about 500000 square km in area.
2. About 600 m (1969 ft) above seal level, so that the temperature is like 3ºC (5.4ºF) cooler. The city is on a plateau, so transport is not difficult- via light rail and waterways (inspired by Teotihuacán)
3. About 1 million people in the city proper (20000 people/square km), with a metro area population of 3 million (15000 people/square km).
4. About 100 km from the nearest coast, with a gentle river and gradient to the coast. Facilitates transport and commerce between the port city and the capital.
5. Yes, nearby a large lake (that gives its water supply) and an ocean to the east.
6. Yes, there is a moderately high 3000 m mountain range about 150 km to the west, of a very narrow continent resembling Chile.
7. Subtropical forest, with little drought and heat-tolerant species, due to the very mild, consistent climate.
8. Warm Temperate Moist Forest
9. Homo Sapiens, Albatross, Birds, Butterflies, Crickets, Fish, Frogs, Ladybirds, Mussels, Moths, Owls. As for plants: Flowers (like Lilies and Roses), Trees (mixed in with crops to recycle nitrogen and phosphorous). Also, there would be Mycorrhizal fungi to increase plant yields, and like uncountable amounts of protists, bacteria and archaea.
The main industries of the capital would be administration, agriculture and research.

Geography wise, I feel like it's pretty hard to realistically get a climate similar to my dream climate with a fall wet season but otherwise evenly distributed precipitation, high diurnal range stable summer, and low diurnal range variable winter.

The best I can do would be to model it off of the northern coast of Turkey, northern coast of Iran, and inland eastern Uruguay. It would be like Uruguay with the hemispheres flipped, the Río de la Plata estuary made larger (almost as large as the Black or Caspian seas), mountains further inland (like the mountains in Turkey and Iran) and the continent made wider and extending closer to Antarctica so the desert is larger and hotter, allowing more dry heat to go east, and winter cold snaps are more prevalent.

With that out of the way,

1. 37 N
2. around sea level with rolling hills
3. 5 million in a 750 km^2 area with some areas more dense than others, but basically rural land outside of that
4. 40 km from the ocean
5. Yes, the city is shaped by water. It is on islands in the middle of a river, similar to Montreal.
6. A moderate mountain range with peaks up to ~2500 m about 40 km to the south.
7/8. Subtropical forest, mostly live oaks with some deciduous trees and bamboo. Some palms artificially planted in city green spaces and by the beach.
9. Great diversity of birds and squirrels. Some frogs, lizards, snakes, beavers, deer, wolves, coyotes, black bears. Red and giant pandas in the mountains.

The city is very diverse and a hub of technology, research, finance, and media. But it is the only large city in the region so the natural landscape is well preserved.

Anything inspired you to change it to such a big city?