Climate
Buenaventura logs 97 hot days a year to Cali's 3 — Cali wins by 94. Cali also leads on outdoor-dinner months by 12.
Buenaventura
Feels-like °C
Dinner outside
Cali
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Dinner outside
Air Quality
Buenaventura averages 15.4 µg/m³ (sensitive-groups) PM2.5 annually versus Cali's 17.3 µg/m³ (sensitive-groups) — Buenaventura breathes ~11% cleaner air (1.9 µg/m³ lower).
Buenaventura
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PM2.5 annual average
WHO classification
City Scale
Both maps at the same real-world scale — 1 cm on either map is the same distance.
Buenaventura (431K) and Cali (2.7M) are 6.2x in population — Cali is the larger metro, Buenaventura the smaller; on land area Cali spans roughly 4.9x more ground.
Cali is roughly 5.5x the scale of Buenaventura
Combined population & area comparison
CaliBuenaventuraCity Scale Rankings
Cali2.7M6.2xBuenaventura431K1xCali186 km²4.9xBuenaventura38 km²1xBuenaventura
Cali
Who Thrives Here
Both cities work well for the winter escapist.
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