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City Pairings
very close match
Minsk, Belarus and Oslo, Norway are a very close climate match — 1,215 km (755 mi) apart. Minsk is Köppen zone Dfb; Oslo is Dfb.
See Minsk on the interactive map →Looking outward from Minsk, the atlas lands on Oslo in the same warm-summer continental (Dfb) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. From Minsk, the atlas looks only about 1,215 km (755 mi) away to Oslo — a nearby stand-in when you want this climate elsewhere.
For Minsk, this is a very close outward match — Oslo is among the tightest distant picks in the atlas. January means differ by 2°C (Oslo warmer); July by 0°C (Oslo cooler).
Sunshine stays close: Oslo at 7.6 h/day on average versus 7.1 h/day in Minsk (January 2.7 h / 1.8 h, July 12.5 h / 12.3 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (7 µg/m³ in Oslo, 9 in Minsk). Dew points differ modestly (January -5°C vs -8°C; July 11°C vs 12°C).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Oslo, Norway is the closest distant match for Minsk, Belarus — scored very close, about 1,215 km (755 mi) away.
Minsk and Oslo are separated by roughly 1,215 km (755 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 warm-summer continental (Dfb).
Minsk has a warm-summer continental climate (Dfb). January averages a high of -3°C and a low of -8°C with 40 mm of rain; July averages 22°C / 13°C and 90 mm.
Minsk averages about 1.8 hours of sunshine a day in January and 12.3 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 10.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 50); July averages 6.6 µg/m³ (US AQI 38).
Other close climate matches for Minsk: Stockholm (close), Gothenburg (close), Anchorage (loose).
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