How important is variability to you?

4/5. Rather important, though more important is the time of year variability occurs. It's crucial to have winter as the more variable time of year, especially when that variability isn't purely positive deviation. Summer cold fronts and polar outbreaks can FUCK right off.

I should say, around 3/5. While my dream climate is warm-oceanic, I like to have variation regarding rainfall amounts and sometimes spikes in temperature where it becomes very warm for brief periods, or conversley, quite cold relative to average. What it lacks in seasonal variation I can make up for in day-to-day variation.

The more the actual climate deviates from my ideal climate, the more I like year-to-year variability. In this way there is always hope that I can get a nice season. Hence in my dream climate I would want low year-to-year variability.

Day-to-day variability (or rather few days to few days) is always important - in winter I prefer high variability and in summer little.

4. Very important, but I wouldn't want a 30C day after a -20C night.

I definitely like a fair share of rainy and clear days and moderate variation in temperature. I’m not a fan of 10 consecutive rainy days or clear days, nor never ending heat in summer. I like some hot days in summer, but I’d rather have a handful mild days as well.

Winter variability is also important although not as much as summer. A good variability between clear and snowy days in winter is good.

4: prefer day-to-day variability in all seasons, but nothing too extreme.

2/5 meh. If variability takes me out of a cloudiness and boring rain days, then yeah. I wouldn't a mind boring, perpetual sunny climate.