Similar Climates › City Pairings › Yakutsk ≈ Yellowknife
City Pairings
loose match
Yakutsk, Russia and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada are a loose climate match — 5,171 km (3,213 mi) apart. Yakutsk is Köppen zone Dfc; Yellowknife is Dfc.
See Yakutsk on the interactive map →Yakutsk and Yellowknife both sit in the subarctic (Dfc) zone, so their seasonal arcs line up. They are about 5,171 km (3,213 mi) apart, so Yellowknife is a reachable stand-in when you want Yakutsk’s weather elsewhere.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Yakutsk, though not a perfect copy. January means differ by 14°C (Yellowknife warmer); July by 2°C (Yellowknife cooler). Monthly rainfall stays within 6 mm in both January and July.
Sunshine stays close: Yellowknife at 8.6 h/day on average versus 8.5 h/day in Yakutsk (January 3.1 h / 3.4 h, July 14 h / 13.7 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 17 µg/m³ in Yellowknife vs 10 in Yakutsk (higher by 7 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 Yakutsk, Russia — scored loose, about 5,171 km (3,213 mi) away.
Yakutsk and Yellowknife are separated by roughly 5,171 km (3,213 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 subarctic (Dfc).
Yakutsk has a subarctic climate (Dfc). January averages a high of -37°C and a low of -44°C with 8 mm of rain; July averages 25°C / 13°C and 40 mm.
Yakutsk averages about 3.4 hours of sunshine a day in January and 13.7 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 8 µg/m³ (US AQI 41); July averages 12.5 µg/m³ (US AQI 53).
Other close climate matches for Yakutsk: Fairbanks (loose), Ulaanbaatar (loose), Astana (loose).
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