Similar Climates › City Pairings › San Salvador ≈ Cuiabá
City Pairings
loose match
San Salvador, El Salvador and Cuiabá, Brazil are a loose climate match — 4,883 km (3,034 mi) apart. San Salvador is Köppen zone Aw; Cuiabá is Aw.
See San Salvador on the interactive map →San Salvador and Cuiabá both sit in the tropical savanna (Aw) zone, so their seasonal arcs line up. Because one city is in the opposite hemisphere, the comparison flips seasons: San Salvador’s January against Cuiabá’s July. They are about 4,883 km (3,034 mi) apart, so Cuiabá is a reachable stand-in when you want San Salvador’s weather elsewhere.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for San Salvador, though not a perfect copy. July by 2°C (Cuiabá warmer); January means differ by 0°C (Cuiabá warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Cuiabá is 58 mm drier in July.
Sunshine stays close: Cuiabá at 10.2 h/day on average versus 11.0 h/day in San Salvador (January 10.6 h / 11.1 h, July 9.8 h / 10.9 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 7 µg/m³ in Cuiabá vs 12 in San Salvador (lower by 5 µg/m³). Dew points differ modestly (January 15°C vs 16°C; July 23°C vs 20°C).
January & July · °C and mm
Cuiabá is in the southern hemisphere, so its July lines up with San Salvador's January — the bars above pair each city's summer and winter, not the calendar month.
Compare San Salvador and Cuiabá month by month on the interactive map →
See Cuiabá's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Cuiabá, Brazil is the closest distant match for San Salvador, El Salvador — scored loose, about 4,883 km (3,034 mi) away.
San Salvador and Cuiabá are separated by roughly 4,883 km (3,034 mi) on the great-circle route.
No — they sit in opposite hemispheres, so seasons run about six months apart: Cuiabá’s July pairs with San Salvador’s January in the comparison.
Yes — both are tropical savanna (Aw).
San Salvador has a tropical savanna climate (Aw). January averages a high of 32°C and a low of 16°C with 4 mm of rain; July averages 31°C / 19°C and 298 mm.
San Salvador averages about 11.1 hours of sunshine a day in January and 10.9 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 9.6 µg/m³ (US AQI 49); July averages 14.5 µg/m³ (US AQI 60).
Other close climate matches for San Salvador: Guadalajara (fair), Juba (loose), Kano (loose).
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