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City Pairings
loose match
Sydney, Australia and Montevideo, Uruguay are a loose climate match — 11,854 km (7,366 mi) apart. Sydney is Köppen zone Cfa; Montevideo is Cfa.
See Sydney on the interactive map →Sydney and Montevideo both sit in the humid subtropical (Cfa) zone, so their seasonal arcs line up. Roughly 11,854 km (7,366 mi) separates them — far enough that Montevideo feels like another continent, close enough on the climate numbers to stand in for Sydney.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Sydney, though not a perfect copy. July by 2°C (Montevideo cooler); January means differ by 0°C (Montevideo warmer). Rainfall shifts more: Montevideo is 22 mm drier in July, and 15 mm drier in January.
Sunshine stays close: Montevideo at 9.6 h/day on average versus 9.9 h/day in Sydney (January 12.1 h / 10.9 h, July 7.1 h / 8.9 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (8 µg/m³ in Montevideo, 10 in Sydney).
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Montevideo, Uruguay is the closest distant match for Sydney, Australia — scored loose, about 11,854 km (7,366 mi) away.
Sydney and Montevideo are separated by roughly 11,854 km (7,366 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 humid subtropical (Cfa).
Sydney has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa). January averages a high of 26°C and a low of 19°C with 100 mm of rain; July averages 17°C / 8°C and 97 mm.
Sydney averages about 10.9 hours of sunshine a day in January and 8.9 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 11.1 µg/m³ (US AQI 54); July averages 9.4 µg/m³ (US AQI 46).
Other close climate matches for Sydney: Florianópolis (loose), Auckland (fair), Curitiba (loose).
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