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City Pairings
close match
Duluth, Minnesota and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada are a close climate match — 1,689 km (1,049 mi) apart. Duluth is Köppen zone Dfb; Edmonton is Dfb.
See Duluth on the interactive map →Duluth and Edmonton both sit in the warm-summer continental (Dfb) zone, so their seasonal arcs line up. They sit only about 1,689 km (1,049 mi) apart — a short hop on the atlas for a climate match this close.
It is a close match: day-to-day weather in Edmonton should feel familiar if you know Duluth. Temperatures stay tight: January means differ by 0°C (Edmonton warmer); July by 2°C (Edmonton cooler).
Sunshine stays close: Edmonton at 8.9 h/day on average versus 8.9 h/day in Duluth (January 5 h / 5.2 h, July 12.9 h / 12.6 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 20 µg/m³ in Edmonton vs 9 in Duluth (higher by 10 µg/m³). Dew points differ modestly (January -14°C vs -15°C; July 11°C vs 14°C).
January & July · °C and mm
Compare Duluth and Edmonton month by month on the interactive map →
See Edmonton's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is the closest distant match for Duluth, Minnesota — scored close, about 1,689 km (1,049 mi) away.
Duluth and Edmonton are separated by roughly 1,689 km (1,049 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 warm-summer continental (Dfb).
Duluth has a warm-summer continental climate (Dfb). January averages a high of -6°C and a low of -16°C with 30 mm of rain; July averages 25°C / 13°C and 105 mm.
Duluth averages about 5.2 hours of sunshine a day in January and 12.6 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 4.3 µg/m³ (US AQI 35); July averages 14.6 µg/m³ (US AQI 64).
Other close climate matches for Duluth: Novosibirsk (fair), Astana (fair), Yekaterinburg (fair).
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