Budapest or Sydney: which climate?
Budapest (Hungary) has a warm-summer humid continental climate, whereas Sydney (Australia) has a temperate oceanic climate, according to the Köppen-Geiger classification.
The values compared here are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme. The same method and the same period apply to Budapest and to Sydney.
Sydney is warmer than Budapest by 7.3 °C in annual average: 17.7 °C against 10.4 °C.
Sydney gets more rain than Budapest: 892 mm per year against 602 mm.
Sydney gets 10.2 hours of sunshine per day on average, against 8.6 hours in Budapest.
Budapest has warmed by +1.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, against +1.2 °C in Sydney. Budapest is therefore warming faster than Sydney. Both trends are statistically significant.
Budapest averages 16 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 85 frost days per year; Sydney averages 2 and 0.
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
| Indicator | Budapest | Sydney | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily temperature | 10.4 °C | 17.7 °C | +7.3 °C |
| Average daily high | 14.7 °C | 20.1 °C | +5.4 °C |
| Average daily low | 6.3 °C | 15.5 °C | +9.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 602 mm | 892 mm | +290 mm |
| Sunshine / day | 8.6 h | 10.2 h | +1.6 h |
| Hot days (≥ 30 °C) | 16 d/yr | 2 d/yr | -14 d/yr |
| Frost days (< 0 °C) | 85 d/yr | 0 d/yr | -85 d/yr |
| Rainy days (≥ 1 mm) | 108 d/yr | 116 d/yr | +8 d/yr |
| Mean relative humidity | 74 % | 72 % | negligible |
| Average peak wind | 15.1 km/h | 25.9 km/h | +10.8 km/h |
A difference is only reported when it exceeds the resolution of the data. ERA5 is a reanalysis on a grid of about 31 km: two nearby cities often fall in the same cell, and below half a degree you are reading the grid, not the climate.