Similar Climates › City Pairings › Yellowknife ≈ Norilsk
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loose match
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada and Norilsk, Russia are a loose climate match — 5,252 km (3,263 mi) apart. Yellowknife is Köppen zone Dfc; Norilsk is Dfc.
See Yellowknife on the interactive map →Yellowknife and Norilsk both sit in the subarctic (Dfc) zone, so their seasonal arcs line up. They are about 5,252 km (3,263 mi) apart, so Norilsk is a reachable stand-in when you want Yellowknife’s weather elsewhere.
It is a loose match: useful as a climate analogue for Yellowknife, though not a perfect copy. July by 5°C (Norilsk cooler); January means differ by 4°C (Norilsk cooler).
Sunshine: Norilsk averages 7.4 hours a day across the two months vs 8.6 in Yellowknife (1.2 h/day less; January 0.2 h vs 3.1 h, July 14.6 h vs 14 h). Air quality: mean PM2.5 is 4 µg/m³ in Norilsk vs 17 in Yellowknife (lower by 13 µg/m³). Humidity: dew point in Norilsk runs about 5°C lower in January (-30°C vs -25°C), so the air feels drier.
January & July · °C and mm
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On Similar Climates, Norilsk, Russia is the closest distant match for Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada — scored loose, about 5,252 km (3,263 mi) away.
Yellowknife and Norilsk are separated by roughly 5,252 km (3,263 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).
Yellowknife has a subarctic climate (Dfc). January averages a high of -22°C and a low of -30°C with 14 mm of rain; July averages 21°C / 13°C and 40 mm.
Yellowknife averages about 3.1 hours of sunshine a day in January and 14 hours in July.
January PM2.5 averages about 0.9 µg/m³ (US AQI 32); July averages 32.7 µg/m³ (US AQI 87).
Other close climate matches for Yellowknife: Magadan (loose), Fairbanks (loose), Ulaanbaatar (loose).
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