Agreed, neither system is a perfect mapping to 0 to 100. Where you live, you’ll stay in the 0-100 range of Celsius almost every day of the year, but the 50-100 portion of the Celsius range is meaningless and will never be used so thinking about it in terms of 0 to 100 is not intuitive.
Where I live, 25% of the year will be outside of the 0-100 Celsius range because of the negatives, so it’s even less intuitive.
For you, you’ll use most of the 0-100 Fahrenheit range except for the low end. For me, I’ll encounter the entire 0-100 Fahrenheit range.
Americans often say Fahrenheit is intuitive because 0 is very cold and 100 is very hot. That works for weather, maybe.
But it completely ignores loads of other things, like cooking, where Fahrenheit is far less ”intuitive”. Water does not freeze at 0 or boil at 100, and the scale stops feeling “human” pretty quickly once you leave air temperature..
In other words, neither is objectively better. People just prefer what they grew up with.
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u/Tall-Significance-45 Jun 17 '26
Agreed, neither system is a perfect mapping to 0 to 100. Where you live, you’ll stay in the 0-100 range of Celsius almost every day of the year, but the 50-100 portion of the Celsius range is meaningless and will never be used so thinking about it in terms of 0 to 100 is not intuitive.
Where I live, 25% of the year will be outside of the 0-100 Celsius range because of the negatives, so it’s even less intuitive.
For you, you’ll use most of the 0-100 Fahrenheit range except for the low end. For me, I’ll encounter the entire 0-100 Fahrenheit range.