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Karl the Fog really gets around. He’s based in San Francisco, but that’s not his primary residence. Sure, he works remotely, which allows him to spread the mist to Point Reyes — a whopping 200 days a year — and farther afield to Hamilton, New Zealand and Africa’s Namib Desert.
These are among the foggiest places on Earth, according to World Atlas. The web site offers a list of other regions where air-suspended water droplets (that’s what fog is, technically) are particularly dense and occur daily or frequently. Surprisingly, San Francisco came in seventh, even during Fogust, when the city becomes so clouded over, you can barely see your bowl of clam chowder.
The fog capital of the Atlantic coast — a place called Mistake Island in the northeastern part of Maine’s Bar Harbor — out-fogged San Francisco, as did Italy’s Po Valley. And the No. 1 foggiest place on Earth is a cluster of underwater plateaus in Newfoundland where “the northern cold Labrador Current mixes with the eastern warm Gulf Stream current, creating a thick fog almost every day.” Brrr!
Here’s World Atlas’ list of the foggiest places on Earth — that link takes you to all the details, too.
- Grand Banks, Newfoundland
- Atacama Coast, Chile
- Po Valley, Italy
- Swiss Plateau, Switzerland
- Namib Desert, Africa
- Mistake Island, Maine
- San Francisco, California
- Cape Disappointment, Washington
- Point Reyes, California
- Hamilton, New Zealand