Similar Climates › City Pairings › Belfast ≈ Dunedin
City Pairings
very close match
Belfast, Northern Ireland and Dunedin, New Zealand are a very close climate match — 19,012 km (11,814 mi) apart. Belfast is Köppen zone Cfb; Dunedin is Cfb.
See Belfast on the interactive map →Looking outward from Belfast, the atlas lands on Dunedin in the same oceanic (Cfb) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. The hemispheres disagree on the calendar, so Belfast’s January is compared with Dunedin’s July. From Belfast, Dunedin is nearly opposite on the globe (19,012 km / 11,814 mi), yet still the place this atlas picks when January and July need a match.
For Belfast, this is a very close outward match — Dunedin is among the tightest distant picks in the atlas. Temperatures stay tight: January means differ by 2°C (Dunedin warmer); July by 0°C (Dunedin warmer).
Sunshine: Dunedin averages 8.3 hours a day across the two months vs 6.8 in Belfast (1.5 h/day more; January 6.1 h vs 3.8 h, July 10.5 h vs 9.8 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (5 µg/m³ in Dunedin, 5 in Belfast).
January & July · °C and mm
Dunedin is in the southern hemisphere, so its July lines up with Belfast's January — the bars above pair each city's summer and winter, not the calendar month.
Compare Belfast and Dunedin month by month on the interactive map →
See Dunedin's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Dunedin, New Zealand is the closest distant match for Belfast, Northern Ireland — scored very close, about 19,012 km (11,814 mi) away.
Belfast and Dunedin are separated by roughly 19,012 km (11,814 mi) on the great-circle route.
No — they sit in opposite hemispheres, so seasons run about six months apart: Dunedin’s July pairs with Belfast’s January in the comparison.
Yes — both are oceanic (Cfb).
Belfast has a oceanic climate (Cfb). January averages a high of 8°C and a low of 2°C with 80 mm of rain; July averages 18°C / 11°C and 70 mm.
Belfast averages about 3.8 hours of sunshine a day in January and 9.8 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 5.9 µg/m³ (US AQI 36); July averages 4.3 µg/m³ (US AQI 26).
Other close climate matches for Belfast: Invercargill (fair), Wellington (fair), Trondheim (fair).
All oceanic (Cfb) cities on Similar Climates →
Explore Belfast and Dunedin on the interactive map →