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City Pairings
close match
Salem, Oregon and Concepción, Chile are a close climate match — 10,385 km (6,453 mi) apart. Salem is Köppen zone Csb; Concepción is Csb.
See Salem on the interactive map →Looking outward from Salem, the atlas lands on Concepción in the same warm-summer Mediterranean (Csb) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. The hemispheres disagree on the calendar, so Salem’s January is compared with Concepción’s July. Salem looks across roughly 10,385 km (6,453 mi) to Concepción: a distant mirror when you want this climate on the other side of the map.
For Salem, Concepción is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. January means differ by 4°C (Concepción warmer); July by 0°C (Concepción cooler).
Sunshine stays close: Concepción at 10.1 h/day on average versus 9.1 h/day in Salem (January 6.8 h / 4.4 h, July 13.4 h / 13.8 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (6 µg/m³ in Concepción, 4 in Salem). Humidity: dew point in Concepción runs about 5°C higher in January (7°C vs 2°C), so the air feels muggier.
January & July · °C and mm
Concepción is in the southern hemisphere, so its July lines up with Salem's January — the bars above pair each city's summer and winter, not the calendar month.
Compare Salem and Concepción month by month on the interactive map →
See Concepción's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Concepción, Chile is the closest distant match for Salem, Oregon — scored close, about 10,385 km (6,453 mi) away.
Salem and Concepción are separated by roughly 10,385 km (6,453 mi) on the great-circle route.
No — they sit in opposite hemispheres, so seasons run about six months apart: Concepción’s July pairs with Salem’s January in the comparison.
Yes — both are warm-summer Mediterranean (Csb).
Salem has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb). January averages a high of 8°C and a low of 1°C with 155 mm of rain; July averages 28°C / 12°C and 10 mm.
Salem averages about 4.4 hours of sunshine a day in January and 13.8 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 4.7 µg/m³ (US AQI 33); July averages 3.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 28).
Other close climate matches for Salem: San Carlos de Bariloche (loose), Tirana (loose), Bordeaux (loose).
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