What US cities are the same latitude as Tokyo?

Answer 1

The closest major US. city to Sapporo, Japan's 43 degrees north latitude is Minneapolis, Minnesota's 45 degrees. On the West Coast of the US, that latitude puts you along the southern coast of Oregon, actually closer to the border of California than the state of Washington.

With Portland Oregon's latitude of 46 degrees, and a small population of 600,000 to Sapporo's 1,900,000, why one may ask, is Portland Sapporo's official sister city in the US?

Both are said to have similar civic cultures, maritime climates and are new cities with a frontier history. Though further to the south, Sapporo has much more severe winters, with Sapporoites spending up to five months of the year under snow. Northeast Asia's weather patterns are closer to the east coast of the US, where the west coast weather patterns are unusually warm at such latitudes.

Answer 2

That depends on what "approximately" means to you.

The following cities are all less than 20 miles from the latitude of the center of Sapporo:

-- Silver Lake, OR

-- Pocatello, ID

-- Casper, WY

-- Wounded Knee, SD

-- Butte, NE

-- Mason City, IA

-- Madison & Milwaukee, WI

-- Grand Rapids & Flint, MI

-- Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica & Albany, NY

-- Brattleboro, VT

-- Manchester & Concord, NH

-- Haverhill, MA

-- York, ME
That depends on what "approximately" means to you.

The following are all less than 20 miles from the latitude of the center of Sapporo:

-- Silver Lake, OR

-- Pocatello, ID

-- Casper, WY

-- Wounded Knee, SD

-- Butte, NE

-- Mason City, IA

-- Madison & Milwaukee, WI

-- Grand Rapids & Flint, MI

-- Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica & Albany, NY

-- Brattleboro, VT

-- Manchester & Concord, NH

-- Haverhill, MA

-- York, ME

Answer 3

That depends on what "approximately" means to you.

The following are all less than 20 miles from the latitude of the center of Sapporo:

-- Silver Lake, OR

-- Pocatello, ID

-- Casper, WY

-- Wounded Knee, SD

-- Butte, NE

-- Mason City, IA

-- Madison & Milwaukee, WI

-- Grand Rapids & Flint, MI

-- Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica & Albany, NY

-- Brattleboro, VT

-- Manchester & Concord, NH

-- Haverhill, MA

-- York, ME

Answer 4

Since latitude can be measured and written correct within inches, the idea of

"same latitude" is kind of a slippery concept.

Besides that, cities aren't points. They occupy some spread out range of latitude.

For example, Oklahoma City spans a range of 26 minutes of latitude, and Jacksonville FL

a range of 28 minutes ... almost 1/2 degree each.

On my map, the latitude at the center of Tokyo is about 35° 40' north. Here are

a few cities and towns that are centered between 35° 30' and 36° ... within roughly

1/4 degree north or south (17.3 miles, 27.8 km) of the latitude of Tokyo's center:

-- San Simeon, California

-- Boulder City, Nevada

-- Cameron, Arizona

-- Santa Fe, New Mexico

-- Dumas & Borger, Texas,

-- Muskogee, Oklahoma

-- Jonesboro, Arkansas

-- Murfreesboro, Tennessee

-- Asheville & Raleigh, North Carolina

Answer 5

Moscow, Russia is at about 55.5N. There are no major US cities with latitudes within 2 degrees of that. The closest would be Juneau, AK at 58N.

Answer 6

Milwaukee, WI

Answer 7

New York

Answer 8

Utica

Answer 9

San Francisco