532 cities across the world, each paired with the place far away whose climate it most resembles. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom.Drag to pan, pinch to zoom.
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Twin pairings, original-roster January/July normals, and this site’s design are from Similar Climates. Please don’t republish the city catalog or twin set wholesale.
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The coloured wash is Beck et al., 1991–2020. A city’s listed zone is its station class and can differ from the map colour at that pixel.
1970–2000 monthly temperature, rain, wind, humidity, and elevation, sampled at each city.
Mean daily sunshine hours from Open-Meteo’s ERA5 reanalysis, averaged by month for 2015–2024 at each city.
PM2.5 and US AQI from Open-Meteo’s CAMS reanalysis, averaged by month for 2022–2024 at each city.
Coastlines, borders, and lakes from Natural Earth. Terrain from ETOPO. Coordinates and population from GeoNames.
We look at a typical winter and summer: how warm the days and nights are, and how much it rains. Then we find another city whose seasons line up — usually in another country, and not just down the road.
Southern places are compared in their opposite season, so a northern January is set against a southern July.
Very close, close, fair, and loose say how similar those two seasons are. Compare with… lets you try any other city; that score uses the same idea.
Köppen–Geiger groups climates by typical temperature and rainfall. The first letter is the group, then the seasonal pattern.
Second letter is the rain season: f year-round, s dry summer, w dry winter, m monsoon. In dry climates, W is desert and S is steppe. Third letter is summer heat: a hot, b warm, c cool, d bitter winter.
The map wash is Beck et al., 1991–2020. A city’s listed zone is its station class and can differ from the raster.