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City Pairings
close match
Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico and Cusco, Peru are a close climate match — 4,744 km (2,948 mi) apart. Toluca is Köppen zone Cwb; Cusco is Cwb.
See Toluca on the interactive map →Looking outward from Toluca, the atlas lands on Cusco in the same subtropical highland (Cwb) zone — a distant place whose seasons still rise and fall with this city's. The hemispheres disagree on the calendar, so Toluca’s January is compared with Cusco’s July. From Toluca's point of view, Cusco sits about 4,744 km (2,948 mi) out — far enough to feel like another place, close enough on the numbers to stand in.
For Toluca, Cusco is a close outward match: weather there should feel familiar if you know this city. January means differ by 3°C (Cusco cooler); July by 2°C (Cusco cooler). Monthly rainfall stays within 5 mm in both January and July.
Sunshine stays close: Cusco at 10.1 h/day on average versus 10.3 h/day in Toluca (January 10.8 h / 10.2 h, July 9.4 h / 10.4 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 5 µg/m³ in Cusco vs 13 in Toluca (lower by 8 µg/m³). Dew points differ modestly (January 1°C vs 2°C; July 6°C vs 9°C).
January & July · °C and mm
Cusco is in the southern hemisphere, so its July lines up with Toluca's January — the bars above pair each city's summer and winter, not the calendar month.
Compare Toluca and Cusco month by month on the interactive map →
See Cusco's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Cusco, Peru is the closest distant match for Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico — scored close, about 4,744 km (2,948 mi) away.
Toluca and Cusco are separated by roughly 4,744 km (2,948 mi) on the great-circle route.
No — they sit in opposite hemispheres, so seasons run about six months apart: Cusco’s July pairs with Toluca’s January in the comparison.
Yes — both are subtropical highland (Cwb).
Toluca has a subtropical highland climate (Cwb). January averages a high of 20°C and a low of 2°C with 10 mm of rain; July averages 22°C / 10°C and 150 mm.
Toluca averages about 10.2 hours of sunshine a day in January and 10.4 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 12 µg/m³ (US AQI 57); July averages 14.6 µg/m³ (US AQI 62).
Other close climate matches for Toluca: Asmara (loose), Lhasa (loose), Sucre (loose).
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