Similar Climates › City Pairings › Verkhoyansk ≈ Yellowknife
City Pairings
loose match
Verkhoyansk, Russia and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada are a loose climate match — 4,580 km (2,846 mi) apart. Verkhoyansk is Köppen zone Dfd; Yellowknife is Dfc.
See Verkhoyansk on the interactive map →Verkhoyansk is classed extreme subarctic (Dfd) while Yellowknife is subarctic (Dfc) — different Köppen labels, but January and July still land close enough to pair. They are about 4,580 km (2,846 mi) apart, so Yellowknife is a reachable stand-in when you want Verkhoyansk’s weather elsewhere.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Verkhoyansk, though not a perfect copy. January means differ by 19°C (Yellowknife warmer); July by 3°C (Yellowknife warmer).
Sunshine: Yellowknife averages 8.6 hours a day across the two months vs 7.0 in Verkhoyansk (1.6 h/day more; January 3.1 h vs 1.4 h, July 14 h vs 12.6 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 17 µg/m³ in Yellowknife vs 9 in Verkhoyansk (higher by 8 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Yellowknife runs about 21°C higher in January (-25°C vs -46°C), so the air feels muggier.
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada is the closest distant match for Verkhoyansk, Russia — scored loose, about 4,580 km (2,846 mi) away.
Verkhoyansk and Yellowknife are separated by roughly 4,580 km (2,846 mi) on the great-circle route.
Yes — both cities are in the same hemisphere, so summer and winter fall in the same calendar months.
No — Verkhoyansk is extreme subarctic (Dfd) and Yellowknife is subarctic (Dfc), but the January and July numbers still align closely enough to pair.
Verkhoyansk has a extreme subarctic climate (Dfd). January averages a high of -42°C and a low of -48°C with 7 mm of rain; July averages 21°C / 7°C and 30 mm.
Verkhoyansk averages about 1.4 hours of sunshine a day in January and 12.6 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 2.6 µg/m³ (US AQI 30); July averages 15.8 µg/m³ (US AQI 55).
Other close climate matches for Verkhoyansk: Fairbanks (loose), Ulaanbaatar (loose), Whitehorse (loose).
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