Is New York further north than Lisbon?

Lisbon sits on the Atlantic at the south-western tip of Europe, with warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters, while New York has snowstorms. It is easy to assume that the European city is the northern one, as with Rome or Paris. Not here. New York City lies at 40.7° N and Lisbon at 38.7° N, so New York is about 220 km further north. Lisbon is level with Washington, D.C. and St. Louis. Both cities face the same ocean, but from opposite sides, and that matters. Lisbon’s region has a Mediterranean pattern of fresh, wet winters and dry summers. New York gets much of its weather from the continent to its west, even though it lies on the coast, which brings harder winters than its latitude would suggest.