Similar Climates › City Pairings › Bridgetown ≈ Nouméa
City Pairings
close match
Bridgetown, Barbados and Nouméa, New Caledonia are a close climate match — 15,049 km (9,351 mi) apart. Bridgetown is Köppen zone Aw; Nouméa is Aw.
See Bridgetown on the interactive map →Looking outward from Bridgetown, the atlas lands on Nouméa in the same tropical savanna (Aw) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. The hemispheres disagree on the calendar, so Bridgetown’s January is compared with Nouméa’s July. From Bridgetown, Nouméa is nearly opposite on the globe (15,049 km / 9,351 mi), yet still the place this atlas picks when January and July need a match.
For Bridgetown, Nouméa is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. January means differ by 4°C (Nouméa cooler); July within half a degree. Rainfall shifts more: Nouméa is 25 mm drier in July, and 15 mm wetter in January.
Sunshine: Nouméa averages 9.7 hours a day across the two months vs 11.1 in Bridgetown (1.5 h/day less; January 8.4 h vs 10.9 h, July 10.9 h vs 11.3 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 8 µg/m³ in Nouméa vs 15 in Bridgetown (lower by 8 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Nouméa runs about 6°C lower in January (15°C vs 21°C), so the air feels drier.
January & July · °C and mm
Nouméa is in the southern hemisphere, so its July lines up with Bridgetown's January — the bars above pair each city's summer and winter, not the calendar month.
Compare Bridgetown and Nouméa month by month on the interactive map →
See Nouméa's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Nouméa, New Caledonia is the closest distant match for Bridgetown, Barbados — scored close, about 15,049 km (9,351 mi) away.
Bridgetown and Nouméa are separated by roughly 15,049 km (9,351 mi) on the great-circle route.
No — they sit in opposite hemispheres, so seasons run about six months apart: Nouméa’s July pairs with Bridgetown’s January in the comparison.
Yes — both are tropical savanna (Aw).
Bridgetown has a tropical savanna climate (Aw). January averages a high of 28°C and a low of 21°C with 65 mm of rain; July averages 30°C / 23°C and 135 mm.
Bridgetown averages about 10.9 hours of sunshine a day in January and 11.3 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 13.3 µg/m³ (US AQI 57); July averages 17.1 µg/m³ (US AQI 65).
Other close climate matches for Bridgetown: Rio de Janeiro (close), Havana (close), Nuku'alofa (close).
All tropical savanna (Aw) cities on Similar Climates →
Explore Bridgetown and Nouméa on the interactive map →