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City Pairings
close match
Boise, Idaho and Ankara, Türkiye are a close climate match — 10,221 km (6,351 mi) apart. Boise is Köppen zone Csa; Ankara is Csa.
See Boise on the interactive map →Looking outward from Boise, the atlas lands on Ankara in the same hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. Boise looks across roughly 10,221 km (6,351 mi) to Ankara: a distant mirror when you want this climate on the other side of the map.
For Boise, Ankara is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. Temperatures stay tight: January means match within half a degree; July by 2°C (Ankara cooler). Monthly rainfall stays within 7 mm in both January and July.
Sunshine stays close: Ankara at 10.3 h/day on average versus 10.2 h/day in Boise (January 6.8 h / 6.4 h, July 13.8 h / 14 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 19 µg/m³ in Ankara vs 7 in Boise (higher by 12 µg/m³). Dew points differ modestly (January -4°C vs -5°C; July 10°C vs 7°C).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Ankara, Türkiye is the closest distant match for Boise, Idaho — scored close, about 10,221 km (6,351 mi) away.
Boise and Ankara are separated by roughly 10,221 km (6,351 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).
Boise has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa). January averages a high of 4°C and a low of -4°C with 33 mm of rain; July averages 33°C / 17°C and 6 mm.
Boise averages about 6.4 hours of sunshine a day in January and 14 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 6 µg/m³ (US AQI 37); July averages 8.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 52).
Other close climate matches for Boise: Mashhad (fair), Yerevan (close), Bishkek (fair).
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