Similar Climates › City Pairings › Praia ≈ Las Palmas
City Pairings
loose match
Praia, Cabo Verde and Las Palmas, Canary Islands are a loose climate match — 1,686 km (1,048 mi) apart. Praia is Köppen zone BSh; Las Palmas is BWh.
See Praia on the interactive map →Praia is classed hot steppe (BSh) while Las Palmas is hot desert (BWh) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still land close enough to pair. They sit only about 1,686 km (1,048 mi) apart — a short hop on the atlas for a climate match this close.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Praia, though not a perfect copy. January means differ by 4°C (Las Palmas cooler); July by 2°C (Las Palmas cooler). Rainfall shifts more: Las Palmas is 19 mm wetter in January.
Sunshine stays close: Las Palmas at 10.8 h/day on average versus 10.4 h/day in Praia (January 9.5 h / 9.8 h, July 12.2 h / 11 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 12 µg/m³ in Las Palmas vs 23 in Praia (lower by 11 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Las Palmas runs about 4°C lower in January (11°C vs 15°C), so the air feels drier.
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Las Palmas, Canary Islands is the closest distant match for Praia, Cabo Verde — scored loose, about 1,686 km (1,048 mi) away.
Praia and Las Palmas are separated by roughly 1,686 km (1,048 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 — Praia is hot steppe (BSh) and Las Palmas is hot desert (BWh), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Praia has a hot steppe climate (BSh). January averages a high of 25°C and a low of 19°C with 6 mm of rain; July averages 27°C / 23°C and 1 mm.
Praia averages about 9.8 hours of sunshine a day in January and 11 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 24.5 µg/m³ (US AQI 79); July averages 22.2 µg/m³ (US AQI 77).
Other close climate matches for Praia: Luanda (loose), Accra (loose), Lima (loose).
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