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City Pairings
close match
Fairbanks, Alaska and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia are a close climate match — 5,940 km (3,691 mi) apart. Fairbanks is Köppen zone Dfc; Ulaanbaatar is BSk.
See Fairbanks on the interactive map →Looking outward from Fairbanks (subarctic, Dfc), the closest distant match is Ulaanbaatar (cold steppe, BSk) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still line up closely enough. From Fairbanks's point of view, Ulaanbaatar sits about 5,940 km (3,691 mi) out — far enough to feel like another place, close enough on the numbers to stand in.
For Fairbanks, Ulaanbaatar is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. Temperatures stay tight: January means differ by 1°C (Ulaanbaatar warmer); July by 1°C (Ulaanbaatar cooler). Rainfall shifts more: Ulaanbaatar is 19 mm wetter in July.
Sunshine: Ulaanbaatar averages 9.6 hours a day across the two months vs 7.2 in Fairbanks (2.4 h/day more; January 8 h vs 2.5 h, July 11.2 h vs 11.8 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 20 µg/m³ in Ulaanbaatar vs 6 in Fairbanks (higher by 14 µg/m³). Dew points differ modestly (January -25°C vs -22°C; July 9°C vs 9°C).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia is the closest distant match for Fairbanks, Alaska — scored close, about 5,940 km (3,691 mi) away.
Fairbanks and Ulaanbaatar are separated by roughly 5,940 km (3,691 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 — Fairbanks is subarctic (Dfc) and Ulaanbaatar is cold steppe (BSk), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Fairbanks has a subarctic climate (Dfc). January averages a high of -17°C and a low of -27°C with 9 mm of rain; July averages 23°C / 12°C and 57 mm.
Fairbanks averages about 2.5 hours of sunshine a day in January and 11.8 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 3.3 µg/m³ (US AQI 35); July averages 9.1 µg/m³ (US AQI 43).
Other close climate matches for Fairbanks: Chita (close), Irkutsk (close), Novosibirsk (fair).
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