Similar Climates › City Pairings › Harbin ≈ Madison
City Pairings
loose match
Harbin, China and Madison, Wisconsin are a loose climate match — 9,516 km (5,913 mi) apart. Harbin is Köppen zone Dwa; Madison is Dfb.
See Harbin on the interactive map →Harbin is classed dry-winter continental (Dwa) while Madison is warm-summer continental (Dfb) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still land close enough to pair. Roughly 9,516 km (5,913 mi) separates them — far enough that Madison feels like another continent, close enough on the climate numbers to stand in for Harbin.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Harbin, though not a perfect copy. January means differ by 10°C (Madison warmer); July by 0°C (Madison cooler). Rainfall shifts more: Madison is 60 mm drier in July, and 26 mm wetter in January.
Sunshine stays close: Madison at 8.8 h/day on average versus 9.1 h/day in Harbin (January 5.2 h / 7.7 h, July 12.3 h / 10.5 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 10 µg/m³ in Madison vs 34 in Harbin (lower by 23 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Madison runs about 14°C higher in January (-10°C vs -24°C), so the air feels muggier.
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Madison, Wisconsin is the closest distant match for Harbin, China — scored loose, about 9,516 km (5,913 mi) away.
Harbin and Madison are separated by roughly 9,516 km (5,913 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 — Harbin is dry-winter continental (Dwa) and Madison is warm-summer continental (Dfb), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Harbin has a dry-winter continental climate (Dwa). January averages a high of -13°C and a low of -24°C with 4 mm of rain; July averages 28°C / 18°C and 165 mm.
Harbin averages about 7.7 hours of sunshine a day in January and 10.5 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 40.2 µg/m³ (US AQI 107); July averages 27.5 µg/m³ (US AQI 86).
Other close climate matches for Harbin: Saint Paul (loose), Novosibirsk (loose), Des Moines (loose).
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