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City Pairings
close match
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Yekaterinburg, Russia are a close climate match — 7,726 km (4,801 mi) apart. Edmonton is Köppen zone Dfb; Yekaterinburg is Dfb.
See Edmonton on the interactive map →Looking outward from Edmonton, the atlas lands on Yekaterinburg in the same warm-summer continental (Dfb) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. From Edmonton's point of view, Yekaterinburg sits about 7,726 km (4,801 mi) out — far enough to feel like another place, close enough on the numbers to stand in.
For Edmonton, Yekaterinburg is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. January means differ by 4°C (Yekaterinburg cooler); July by 1°C (Yekaterinburg warmer). Monthly rainfall stays within 8 mm in both January and July.
Sunshine: Yekaterinburg averages 7.9 hours a day across the two months vs 8.9 in Edmonton (1.0 h/day less; January 3.1 h vs 5 h, July 12.7 h vs 12.9 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 8 µg/m³ in Yekaterinburg vs 20 in Edmonton (lower by 12 µg/m³). Dew points differ modestly (January -17°C vs -14°C; July 12°C vs 11°C).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Yekaterinburg, Russia is the closest distant match for Edmonton, Alberta, Canada — scored close, about 7,726 km (4,801 mi) away.
Edmonton and Yekaterinburg are separated by roughly 7,726 km (4,801 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).
Edmonton has a warm-summer continental climate (Dfb). January averages a high of -6°C and a low of -15°C with 22 mm of rain; July averages 23°C / 12°C and 93 mm.
Edmonton averages about 5 hours of sunshine a day in January and 12.9 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 14.6 µg/m³ (US AQI 54); July averages 25.3 µg/m³ (US AQI 79).
Other close climate matches for Edmonton: Rovaniemi (close), Duluth (close), Novosibirsk (fair).
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