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loose match
Santiago, Chile and Sacramento, California are a loose climate match — 9,574 km (5,949 mi) apart. Santiago is Köppen zone BSk; Sacramento is Csa.
See Santiago on the interactive map →Santiago is classed cold steppe (BSk) while Sacramento is hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still land close enough to pair. Because one city is in the opposite hemisphere, the comparison flips seasons: Santiago’s January against Sacramento’s July. Roughly 9,574 km (5,949 mi) separates them — far enough that Sacramento feels like another continent, close enough on the climate numbers to stand in for Santiago.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Santiago, though not a perfect copy. January means differ by 4°C (Sacramento warmer); July by 0°C (Sacramento cooler). Rainfall shifts more: Sacramento is 20 mm wetter in July.
Sunshine stays close: Sacramento at 10.1 h/day on average versus 10.5 h/day in Santiago (January 13.9 h / 13.4 h, July 6.2 h / 7.6 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 9 µg/m³ in Sacramento vs 38 in Santiago (lower by 29 µg/m³).
January & July · °C and mm
Santiago is in the southern hemisphere, so its July lines up with Sacramento's January — the bars above pair each city's summer and winter, not the calendar month.
Compare Santiago and Sacramento month by month on the interactive map →
See Sacramento's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Sacramento, California is the closest distant match for Santiago, Chile — scored loose, about 9,574 km (5,949 mi) away.
Santiago and Sacramento are separated by roughly 9,574 km (5,949 mi) on the great-circle route.
No — they sit in opposite hemispheres, so seasons run about six months apart: Sacramento’s July pairs with Santiago’s January in the comparison.
No — Santiago is cold steppe (BSk) and Sacramento is hot-summer Mediterranean (Csa), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Santiago has a cold steppe climate (BSk). January averages a high of 30°C and a low of 13°C with 1 mm of rain; July averages 15°C / 3°C and 70 mm.
Santiago averages about 13.4 hours of sunshine a day in January and 7.6 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 21.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 85); July averages 54.2 µg/m³ (US AQI 139).
Other close climate matches for Santiago: Kabul (loose), San Jose (loose), Fes (loose).
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