Is a planet's southern hemisphere necessarily warmer than the north?

Epic fantasies typically depict northern areas as cold and southern areas as relatively warm. Is this just to play into reader expectations since that's the way it is on Earth, or is there a scientific reason that a planet's northern hemisphere will tend to be cooler?

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Is a planet's southern hemisphere necessarily warmer than the north?

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