Similar Climates › City Pairings › Oslo ≈ Minsk
City Pairings
very close match
Oslo, Norway and Minsk, Belarus are a very close climate match — 1,215 km (755 mi) apart. Oslo is Köppen zone Dfb; Minsk is Dfb.
See Oslo on the interactive map →Looking outward from Oslo, the atlas lands on Minsk in the same warm-summer continental (Dfb) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. From Oslo, the atlas looks only about 1,215 km (755 mi) away to Minsk — a nearby stand-in when you want this climate elsewhere.
For Oslo, this is a very close outward match — Minsk is among the tightest distant picks in the atlas. January means differ by 2°C (Minsk cooler); July by 0°C (Minsk warmer).
Sunshine stays close: Minsk at 7.1 h/day on average versus 7.6 h/day in Oslo (January 1.8 h / 2.7 h, July 12.3 h / 12.5 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (9 µg/m³ in Minsk, 7 in Oslo). Dew points differ modestly (January -8°C vs -5°C; July 12°C vs 11°C).
January & July · °C and mm
Compare Oslo and Minsk month by month on the interactive map →
See Minsk's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Minsk, Belarus is the closest distant match for Oslo, Norway — scored very close, about 1,215 km (755 mi) away.
Oslo and Minsk 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).
Oslo has a warm-summer continental climate (Dfb). January averages a high of -1°C and a low of -6°C with 50 mm of rain; July averages 22°C / 12°C and 85 mm.
Oslo averages about 2.7 hours of sunshine a day in January and 12.5 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 10.3 µg/m³ (US AQI 48); July averages 4.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 28).
Other close climate matches for Oslo: Vilnius (close), Riga (very close), Saint Petersburg (close).
All warm-summer continental (Dfb) cities on Similar Climates →
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