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City Pairings
close match
Manila, Philippines and Cairns, Australia are a close climate match — 4,437 km (2,757 mi) apart. Manila is Köppen zone Am; Cairns is Am.
See Manila on the interactive map →Looking outward from Manila, the atlas lands on Cairns in the same tropical monsoon (Am) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. The hemispheres disagree on the calendar, so Manila’s January is compared with Cairns’ July. From Manila's point of view, Cairns sits about 4,437 km (2,757 mi) out — far enough to feel like another place, close enough on the numbers to stand in.
For Manila, Cairns is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. January means differ by 4°C (Cairns cooler); July by 0°C (Cairns warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Cairns is 30 mm drier in July.
Sunshine stays close: Cairns at 9.8 h/day on average versus 9.2 h/day in Manila (January 9.8 h / 9.9 h, July 9.7 h / 8.5 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 4 µg/m³ in Cairns vs 16 in Manila (lower by 11 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Cairns runs about 5°C lower in January (16°C vs 21°C), so the air feels drier.
January & July · °C and mm
Cairns is in the southern hemisphere, so its July lines up with Manila's January — the bars above pair each city's summer and winter, not the calendar month.
Compare Manila and Cairns month by month on the interactive map →
See Cairns's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Cairns, Australia is the closest distant match for Manila, Philippines — scored close, about 4,437 km (2,757 mi) away.
Manila and Cairns are separated by roughly 4,437 km (2,757 mi) on the great-circle route.
No — they sit in opposite hemispheres, so seasons run about six months apart: Cairns’ July pairs with Manila’s January in the comparison.
Yes — both are tropical monsoon (Am).
Manila has a tropical monsoon climate (Am). January averages a high of 30°C and a low of 21°C with 20 mm of rain; July averages 31°C / 24°C and 430 mm.
Manila averages about 9.9 hours of sunshine a day in January and 8.5 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 11.2 µg/m³ (US AQI 53); July averages 19.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 72).
Other close climate matches for Manila: Port Harcourt (close), Darwin (loose), Malabo (loose).
All tropical monsoon (Am) cities on Similar Climates →
Explore Manila and Cairns on the interactive map →