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City Pairings
loose match
Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Nuuk, Greenland are a loose climate match — 2,639 km (1,640 mi) apart. Longyearbyen is Köppen zone ET; Nuuk is ET.
See Longyearbyen on the interactive map →Longyearbyen and Nuuk both sit in the tundra (ET) zone, so their seasonal arcs line up. They are about 2,639 km (1,640 mi) apart, so Nuuk is a reachable stand-in when you want Longyearbyen’s weather elsewhere.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Longyearbyen, though not a perfect copy. January means differ by 8°C (Nuuk warmer); July by 2°C (Nuuk warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Nuuk is 60 mm wetter in July, and 15 mm wetter in January.
Sunshine stays close: Nuuk at 6.0 h/day on average versus 5.2 h/day in Longyearbyen (January 1.5 h / 0 h, July 10.6 h / 10.4 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (3 µg/m³ in Nuuk, 2 in Longyearbyen). Humidity: dew point in Nuuk runs about 5°C higher in January (-11°C vs -16°C), so the air feels muggier.
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Nuuk, Greenland is the closest distant match for Longyearbyen, Svalbard — scored loose, about 2,639 km (1,640 mi) away.
Longyearbyen and Nuuk are separated by roughly 2,639 km (1,640 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 tundra (ET).
Longyearbyen has a tundra climate (ET). January averages a high of -12°C and a low of -19°C with 25 mm of rain; July averages 7°C / 3°C and 20 mm.
Longyearbyen averages about 0 hours of sunshine a day in January and 10.4 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 0.9 µg/m³ (US AQI 32); July averages 2.2 µg/m³ (US AQI 22).
Other close climate matches for Longyearbyen: Anadyr (loose), Iqaluit (loose), Magadan (loose).
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