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City Pairings
close match
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau and Surat, India are a close climate match — 9,374 km (5,825 mi) apart. Bissau is Köppen zone Aw; Surat is As.
See Bissau on the interactive map →Looking outward from Bissau (tropical savanna, Aw), the closest distant match is Surat (tropical savanna, dry summer, As) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still line up closely enough. Bissau looks across roughly 9,374 km (5,825 mi) to Surat: a distant mirror when you want this climate on the other side of the map.
For Bissau, Surat is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. January means differ by 3°C (Surat cooler); July by 1°C (Surat warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Surat is 40 mm wetter in July.
Sunshine stays close: Surat at 8.7 h/day on average versus 9.2 h/day in Bissau (January 10.6 h / 10.5 h, July 6.7 h / 7.8 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 44 µg/m³ in Surat vs 22 in Bissau (higher by 21 µg/m³). Dew points differ modestly (January 10°C vs 13°C; July 25°C vs 23°C).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Surat, India is the closest distant match for Bissau, Guinea-Bissau — scored close, about 9,374 km (5,825 mi) away.
Bissau and Surat are separated by roughly 9,374 km (5,825 mi) on the great-circle route.
Yes — both cities are in the same hemisphere, so summer and winter fall in the same calendar months.
No — Bissau is tropical savanna (Aw) and Surat is tropical savanna, dry summer (As), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Bissau has a tropical savanna climate (Aw). January averages a high of 33°C and a low of 17°C with 0 mm of rain; July averages 31°C / 23°C and 385 mm.
Bissau averages about 10.5 hours of sunshine a day in January and 7.8 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 36 µg/m³ (US AQI 100); July averages 8.9 µg/m³ (US AQI 43).
Other close climate matches for Bissau: Indore (fair), Ahmedabad (fair), Abuja (loose).
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