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City Pairings
fair match
La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico and Cairo, Egypt are a fair climate match — 12,725 km (7,907 mi) apart. La Paz is Köppen zone BWh; Cairo is BWh.
See La Paz on the interactive map →Looking outward from La Paz, the atlas lands on Cairo in the same hot desert (BWh) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. La Paz looks across roughly 12,725 km (7,907 mi) to Cairo: a distant mirror when you want this climate on the other side of the map.
For La Paz, Cairo is a fair outward match — close on the main numbers, with a few seasonal quirks. January means differ by 4°C (Cairo cooler); July by 0°C (Cairo cooler). Monthly rainfall stays within 8 mm in both January and July.
Sunshine stays close: Cairo at 11.4 h/day on average versus 11.3 h/day in La Paz (January 9.3 h / 10 h, July 13.5 h / 12.7 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 27 µg/m³ in Cairo vs 7 in La Paz (higher by 20 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Cairo runs about 6°C lower in January (6°C vs 12°C), so the air feels drier.
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Cairo, Egypt is the closest distant match for La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico — scored fair, about 12,725 km (7,907 mi) away.
La Paz and Cairo are separated by roughly 12,725 km (7,907 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 hot desert (BWh).
La Paz has a hot desert climate (BWh). January averages a high of 24°C and a low of 12°C with 12 mm of rain; July averages 35°C / 23°C and 8 mm.
La Paz averages about 10 hours of sunshine a day in January and 12.7 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 4.3 µg/m³ (US AQI 35); July averages 8.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 45).
Other close climate matches for La Paz: Tamanrasset (loose), Jeddah (loose), Santiago de Cuba (loose).
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