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City Pairings
loose match
Beirut, Lebanon and Algiers, Algeria are a loose climate match — 2,944 km (1,829 mi) apart. Beirut is Köppen zone Csa; Algiers is Csa.
See Beirut on the interactive map →Beirut and Algiers both sit in the hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa) zone, so their seasonal arcs line up. They are about 2,944 km (1,829 mi) apart, so Algiers is a reachable stand-in when you want Beirut’s weather elsewhere.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Beirut, though not a perfect copy. Temperatures stay tight: January means match within half a degree; July by 0°C (Algiers warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Algiers is 110 mm drier in January.
Sunshine stays close: Algiers at 10.8 h/day on average versus 10.7 h/day in Beirut (January 8.6 h / 8 h, July 13 h / 13.4 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (13 µg/m³ in Algiers, 17 in Beirut). Dew points differ modestly (January 7°C vs 6°C; July 18°C vs 20°C).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Algiers, Algeria is the closest distant match for Beirut, Lebanon — scored loose, about 2,944 km (1,829 mi) away.
Beirut and Algiers are separated by roughly 2,944 km (1,829 mi) on the great-circle route.
Yes — both cities are in the same hemisphere, so summer and winter fall in the same calendar months.
Yes — both are hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa).
Beirut has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa). January averages a high of 17°C and a low of 9°C with 195 mm of rain; July averages 30°C / 22°C and 0 mm.
Beirut averages about 8 hours of sunshine a day in January and 13.4 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 17.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 66); July averages 16.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 65).
Other close climate matches for Beirut: Valletta (loose), Guayaquil (loose), São Tomé (loose).
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