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City Pairings
close match
Salta, Argentina and Pretoria, South Africa are a close climate match — 9,172 km (5,699 mi) apart. Salta is Köppen zone BSh; Pretoria is Cwa.
See Salta on the interactive map →Looking outward from Salta (hot steppe, BSh), the closest distant match is Pretoria (dry-winter subtropical, Cwa) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still line up closely enough. Salta looks across roughly 9,172 km (5,699 mi) to Pretoria: a distant mirror when you want this climate on the other side of the map.
For Salta, Pretoria is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. Temperatures stay tight: January means match within half a degree; July by 0°C (Pretoria cooler). Rainfall shifts more: Pretoria is 55 mm drier in January.
Sunshine stays close: Pretoria at 10.8 h/day on average versus 9.9 h/day in Salta (January 11.4 h / 10.5 h, July 10.1 h / 9.3 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 23 µg/m³ in Pretoria vs 5 in Salta (higher by 18 µg/m³). Dew points differ modestly (January 16°C vs 16°C; July 1°C vs 4°C).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Pretoria, South Africa is the closest distant match for Salta, Argentina — scored close, about 9,172 km (5,699 mi) away.
Salta and Pretoria are separated by roughly 9,172 km (5,699 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 — Salta is hot steppe (BSh) and Pretoria is dry-winter subtropical (Cwa), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Salta has a hot steppe climate (BSh). January averages a high of 29°C and a low of 17°C with 185 mm of rain; July averages 21°C / 4°C and 3 mm.
Salta averages about 10.5 hours of sunshine a day in January and 9.3 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 4.5 µg/m³ (US AQI 29); July averages 4.9 µg/m³ (US AQI 31).
Other close climate matches for Salta: Oaxaca (fair), Bulawayo (fair), Huambo (fair).
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