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very close match
San Juan, Puerto Rico and Cebu City, Philippines are a very close climate match — 16,631 km (10,334 mi) apart. San Juan is Köppen zone Af; Cebu City is Af.
See San Juan on the interactive map →Looking outward from San Juan, the atlas lands on Cebu City in the same tropical rainforest (Af) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. From San Juan, Cebu City is nearly opposite on the globe (16,631 km / 10,334 mi), yet still the place this atlas picks when January and July need a match.
For San Juan, this is a very close outward match — Cebu City is among the tightest distant picks in the atlas. Temperatures stay tight: January means differ by 2°C (Cebu City warmer); July within half a degree. Rainfall shifts more: Cebu City is 24 mm wetter in January, and 20 mm wetter in July.
Sunshine: Cebu City averages 9.2 hours a day across the two months vs 11.4 in San Juan (2.2 h/day less; January 9.1 h vs 10.8 h, July 9.3 h vs 12 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (8 µg/m³ in Cebu City, 10 in San Juan). Dew points differ modestly (January 23°C vs 20°C; July 24°C vs 23°C).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Cebu City, Philippines is the closest distant match for San Juan, Puerto Rico — scored very close, about 16,631 km (10,334 mi) away.
San Juan and Cebu City are separated by roughly 16,631 km (10,334 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 tropical rainforest (Af).
San Juan has a tropical rainforest climate (Af). January averages a high of 29°C and a low of 21°C with 86 mm of rain; July averages 31°C / 24°C and 135 mm.
San Juan averages about 10.8 hours of sunshine a day in January and 12 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 6.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 37); July averages 13.2 µg/m³ (US AQI 55).
Other close climate matches for San Juan: Nuku'alofa (close), Fortaleza (close), Havana (close).
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