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City Pairings
loose match
Busan, South Korea and Nanning, China are a loose climate match — 2,426 km (1,507 mi) apart. Busan is Köppen zone Cwa; Nanning is Cwa.
See Busan on the interactive map →Busan and Nanning both sit in the dry-winter subtropical (Cwa) zone, so their seasonal arcs line up. They sit only about 2,426 km (1,507 mi) apart — a short hop on the atlas for a climate match this close.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Busan, though not a perfect copy. January means differ by 9°C (Nanning warmer); July by 3°C (Nanning warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Nanning is 85 mm drier in July.
Sunshine: Nanning averages 6.8 hours a day across the two months vs 8.2 in Busan (1.4 h/day less; January 4.4 h vs 7.7 h, July 9.1 h vs 8.6 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 23 µg/m³ in Nanning vs 15 in Busan (higher by 8 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Nanning runs about 14°C higher in January (8°C vs -6°C), so the air feels muggier.
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Nanning, China is the closest distant match for Busan, South Korea — scored loose, about 2,426 km (1,507 mi) away.
Busan and Nanning are separated by roughly 2,426 km (1,507 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 dry-winter subtropical (Cwa).
Busan has a dry-winter subtropical climate (Cwa). January averages a high of 8°C and a low of 0°C with 35 mm of rain; July averages 28°C / 23°C and 320 mm.
Busan averages about 7.7 hours of sunshine a day in January and 8.6 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 17.5 µg/m³ (US AQI 65); July averages 13.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 56).
Other close climate matches for Busan: Guiyang (loose), Chengdu (loose), Nanjing (loose).
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