Similar Climates › City Pairings › Ushuaia ≈ Nuuk
City Pairings
loose match
Ushuaia, Argentina and Nuuk, Greenland are a loose climate match — 13,308 km (8,269 mi) apart. Ushuaia is Köppen zone ET; Nuuk is ET.
See Ushuaia on the interactive map →Ushuaia and Nuuk both sit in the tundra (ET) zone, so their seasonal arcs line up. Because one city is in the opposite hemisphere, the comparison flips seasons: Ushuaia’s January against Nuuk’s July. Roughly 13,308 km (8,269 mi) separates them — far enough that Nuuk feels like another continent, close enough on the climate numbers to stand in for Ushuaia.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Ushuaia, though not a perfect copy. July by 10°C (Nuuk cooler); January means differ by 2°C (Nuuk cooler). Rainfall shifts more: Nuuk is 40 mm wetter in January.
Sunshine stays close: Nuuk at 6.0 h/day on average versus 7.0 h/day in Ushuaia (January 10.6 h / 10.4 h, July 1.5 h / 3.6 h). PM2.5 averages stay near each other (3 µg/m³ in Nuuk, 2 in Ushuaia). Humidity: dew point in Nuuk runs about 10°C lower in July (-11°C vs -1°C), so the air feels drier.
January & July · °C and mm
Ushuaia is in the southern hemisphere, so its July lines up with Nuuk's January — the bars above pair each city's summer and winter, not the calendar month.
Compare Ushuaia and Nuuk month by month on the interactive map →
See Nuuk's climate twin on its own page.
On Similar Climates, Nuuk, Greenland is the closest distant match for Ushuaia, Argentina — scored loose, about 13,308 km (8,269 mi) away.
Ushuaia and Nuuk are separated by roughly 13,308 km (8,269 mi) on the great-circle route.
No — they sit in opposite hemispheres, so seasons run about six months apart: Nuuk’s July pairs with Ushuaia’s January in the comparison.
Yes — both are tundra (ET).
Ushuaia has a tundra climate (ET). January averages a high of 14°C and a low of 5°C with 40 mm of rain; July averages 4°C / -1°C and 50 mm.
Ushuaia averages about 10.4 hours of sunshine a day in January and 3.6 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 2 µg/m³ (US AQI 14); July averages 2 µg/m³ (US AQI 26).
Other close climate matches for Ushuaia: Reykjavík (loose), Edinburgh (loose), Tromsø (loose).
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