According to the maps of Golarion that are in the various products, I'm going to make some assumptions in this post and I'd like an official "Sounds right" or "You're way off base"
I generally like to mark the calendar of the campaign in advance with weather conditions. This saves time and I can approximate what weather patterns would be like MUCH better than rolling on a table.
So, in order to approximate the weather correctly, you need to know the latitude of the locations.
Where I am, in Boston, we're 42 degrees north, a much different range of temperatures than, say Los Angeles, 34 degrees north.
So here's my guess at the approximate latitude of Golarion cities using a latitude line running on the bottom of the map as 0 degrees latitude:
Riddleport - 50 degrees N
Magnimar - 45 degrees N
Korvosa - 44 degrees N
Absolom - 32 degrees N
Sothis - 25 degrees N
Merab - 26 degrees N
Oppara - 36 degrees N
Kerse - 41 degrees N
Nerosyan - 54 degrees N
Egorian - 37 degrees N
Katapesh - 18 degrees N
Quantium - 12 degrees N
Mechitar - 7 degrees N
Eleder - 5 degrees N
If someone can do this mathematically, please correct me. But for my needs, the approximates are good enough to get me the weather. I can compare to existing cities with similar geographical features and get a decent annual weather pattern.
Edit: One thing to note if you're doing this mathematically, I do not assume the top of the map is 90 degrees north. Probably more like 75 or 80 degrees north.
I'm going to guess that you're a little off base becasue of your starting @ 0 degrees.. but I could be wrong. Wasn't Varisa supposed to be about the same size as texas? might be eaisier to extrapolate from that
Was that posted somewhere?
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I'm going to guess that you're a little off base becasue of your starting @ 0 degrees.. but I could be wrong. Wasn't Varisa supposed to be about the same size as texas? might be eaisier to extrapolate from that
Was that posted somewhere?
when the rough draft of the map from the gazeteer came out on the blog, it was stated.. somewhere there is a thread where people were overlaying Texas and France and similar sized countries to the varisa part (sorry spelling is awful today) of the map to get a feel for the rest of the world. I beleive the same thread also discussed where the equator was in Golarion (not sure but I think it was stated to be a bit below the bottom of the map - Varisa should be about the same location as England)
Edit:
here is the thread I was thinking about if you go to the second and third pages there are some other comparisons to scale.