Similar Climates › City Pairings › Bujumbura ≈ Perth
City Pairings
loose match
Bujumbura, Burundi and Perth, Australia are a loose climate match — 9,479 km (5,890 mi) apart. Bujumbura is Köppen zone BSh; Perth is Csa.
See Bujumbura on the interactive map →Bujumbura is classed hot steppe (BSh) while Perth is hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still land close enough to pair. Roughly 9,479 km (5,890 mi) separates them — far enough that Perth feels like another continent, close enough on the climate numbers to stand in for Bujumbura.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Bujumbura, though not a perfect copy. July by 11°C (Perth cooler); January means differ by 1°C (Perth warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Perth is 140 mm wetter in July, and 107 mm drier in January.
Sunshine stays close: Perth at 10.6 h/day on average versus 10.6 h/day in Bujumbura (January 12.8 h / 10.1 h, July 8.4 h / 11.2 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 6 µg/m³ in Perth vs 25 in Bujumbura (lower by 19 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Perth runs about 7°C lower in July (8°C vs 15°C), so the air feels drier.
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Perth, Australia is the closest distant match for Bujumbura, Burundi — scored loose, about 9,479 km (5,890 mi) away.
Bujumbura and Perth are separated by roughly 9,479 km (5,890 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 — Bujumbura is hot steppe (BSh) and Perth is hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Bujumbura has a hot steppe climate (BSh). January averages a high of 28°C and a low of 19°C with 115 mm of rain; July averages 30°C / 18°C and 5 mm.
Bujumbura averages about 10.1 hours of sunshine a day in January and 11.2 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 27.6 µg/m³ (US AQI 86); July averages 21.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 74).
Other close climate matches for Bujumbura: Dili (loose), Los Angeles (loose), Kinshasa (fair).
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