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City Pairings
close match
Panama City, Panama and Porto-Novo, Benin are a close climate match — 9,034 km (5,613 mi) apart. Panama City is Köppen zone Am; Porto-Novo is Aw.
See Panama City on the interactive map →Panama City is classed tropical monsoon (Am) while Porto-Novo is tropical savanna (Aw) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still land close enough to pair. Roughly 9,034 km (5,613 mi) separates them — far enough that Porto-Novo feels like another continent, close enough on the climate numbers to stand in for Panama City.
It is a close match: day-to-day weather in Porto-Novo should feel familiar if you know Panama City. Temperatures stay tight: January means differ by 0°C (Porto-Novo warmer); July by 2°C (Porto-Novo cooler). Rainfall shifts more: Porto-Novo is 53 mm drier in July.
Sunshine stays close: Porto-Novo at 9.6 h/day on average versus 9.0 h/day in Panama City (January 10.2 h / 10.7 h, July 8.9 h / 7.3 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 32 µg/m³ in Porto-Novo vs 9 in Panama City (higher by 23 µg/m³).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Porto-Novo, Benin is the closest distant match for Panama City, Panama — scored close, about 9,034 km (5,613 mi) away.
Panama City and Porto-Novo are separated by roughly 9,034 km (5,613 mi) on the great-circle route.
Yes — both cities are in the same hemisphere, so summer and winter fall in the same calendar months.
No — Panama City is tropical monsoon (Am) and Porto-Novo is tropical savanna (Aw), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Panama City has a tropical monsoon climate (Am). January averages a high of 31°C and a low of 23°C with 28 mm of rain; July averages 31°C / 24°C and 183 mm.
Panama City averages about 10.7 hours of sunshine a day in January and 7.3 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 8.9 µg/m³ (US AQI 48); July averages 8.2 µg/m³ (US AQI 43).
Other close climate matches for Panama City: Rio de Janeiro (fair), Phnom Penh (fair), Acapulco de Juarez (fair).
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