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City Pairings
loose match
Arequipa, Peru and Puebla, Puebla, Mexico are a loose climate match — 4,904 km (3,047 mi) apart. Arequipa is Köppen zone BWk; Puebla is Cwb.
See Arequipa on the interactive map →Arequipa is classed cold desert (BWk) while Puebla is subtropical highland (Cwb) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still land close enough to pair. Because one city is in the opposite hemisphere, the comparison flips seasons: Arequipa’s January against Puebla’s July. They are about 4,904 km (3,047 mi) apart, so Puebla is a reachable stand-in when you want Arequipa’s weather elsewhere.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Arequipa, though not a perfect copy. January means differ by 4°C (Puebla warmer); July by 2°C (Puebla warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Puebla is 105 mm wetter in January.
Sunshine stays close: Puebla at 10.9 h/day on average versus 10.2 h/day in Arequipa (January 11.4 h / 9.5 h, July 10.5 h / 11 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 13 µg/m³ in Puebla vs 7 in Arequipa (higher by 6 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Puebla runs about 6°C higher in July (5°C vs -1°C), so the air feels muggier.
January & July · °C and mm
Arequipa is in the southern hemisphere, so its July lines up with Puebla's January — the bars above pair each city's summer and winter, not the calendar month.
Compare Arequipa and Puebla month by month on the interactive map →
See Puebla's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico is the closest distant match for Arequipa, Peru — scored loose, about 4,904 km (3,047 mi) away.
Arequipa and Puebla are separated by roughly 4,904 km (3,047 mi) on the great-circle route.
No — they sit in opposite hemispheres, so seasons run about six months apart: Puebla’s July pairs with Arequipa’s January in the comparison.
No — Arequipa is cold desert (BWk) and Puebla is subtropical highland (Cwb), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Arequipa has a cold desert climate (BWk). January averages a high of 22°C and a low of 9°C with 30 mm of rain; July averages 21°C / 5°C and 0 mm.
Arequipa averages about 9.5 hours of sunshine a day in January and 11 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 6.3 µg/m³ (US AQI 36); July averages 7.5 µg/m³ (US AQI 43).
Other close climate matches for Arequipa: Lhasa (loose), Toluca (loose), Mexico City (loose).
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