California dreaming? Not at Newgale beach in Pembrokeshire

OK, to be accurate, it's actually as warm as the city of San Francisco, but did you know Pembrokeshire also has as many days of sunshine as Hong Kong?

Or that it is drier than the Caribbean island of Bermuda?

The figures have been complied by the Met Office's Barry Grommet, in a "sideways" look at weather in Wales.

He admits he deliberately chose west Wales rather than the north because he thought he could get comparable figures to some more exotic locations.

The Bay area of San Francisco is often hit by fogs

Mr Grommett told BBC Wales: "It's really amazing what you can do with a few figures, have a little sideways look at the weather.

"If you look at the average daily temperature for somewhere like Pembrokeshire, it equates during the summer months to about 18 degrees (centigrade), and that's the equivalent of San Francisco.

"We all have these romantic dreams of San Francisco being one of those lovely warm sunny places - and it is - but it's interesting what these figures can turn up sometimes.

"[Fog] is probably the reason why San Francisco's figures are on a par. It's quite a foggy coastline, particularly in the Bay area, and that has an effect on depressing the temperature."

However, the picture changes quite sharply just by moving 100 miles up the Welsh coast.

"If we'd have chosen north Wales, of course we'd have been looking at one of the wettest places in this country," he admitted.

"It regularly receives anything like up to four metres of rain."