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City Pairings
close match
Lisbon, Portugal and Jerusalem, Israel are a close climate match — 4,062 km (2,524 mi) apart. Lisbon is Köppen zone Csa; Jerusalem is Csa.
See Lisbon on the interactive map →Looking outward from Lisbon, the atlas lands on Jerusalem in the same hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. From Lisbon's point of view, Jerusalem sits about 4,062 km (2,524 mi) out — far enough to feel like another place, close enough on the numbers to stand in.
For Lisbon, Jerusalem is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. January means differ by 2°C (Jerusalem cooler); July by 0°C (Jerusalem warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Jerusalem is 30 mm wetter in January.
Sunshine stays close: Jerusalem at 10.9 h/day on average versus 10.6 h/day in Lisbon (January 8.5 h / 7.7 h, July 13.3 h / 13.4 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (13 µg/m³ in Jerusalem, 12 in Lisbon). Humidity: dew point in Jerusalem runs about 5°C lower in January (3°C vs 8°C), so the air feels drier.
January & July · °C and mm
Compare Lisbon and Jerusalem month by month on the interactive map →
See Jerusalem's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Jerusalem, Israel is the closest distant match for Lisbon, Portugal — scored close, about 4,062 km (2,524 mi) away.
Lisbon and Jerusalem are separated by roughly 4,062 km (2,524 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-summer Mediterranean (Csa).
Lisbon has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa). January averages a high of 15°C and a low of 8°C with 100 mm of rain; July averages 28°C / 18°C and 5 mm.
Lisbon averages about 7.7 hours of sunshine a day in January and 13.4 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 13.9 µg/m³ (US AQI 58); July averages 9.1 µg/m³ (US AQI 46).
Other close climate matches for Lisbon: Adelaide (fair), Cape Town (fair), Benghazi (fair).
All hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa) cities on Similar Climates →
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