Climate twins of Airway Heights, WA

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Airway Heights's. Each "twin" must be at least 140 miles away to avoid trivial near-neighbor matches. Similarity is computed across all 24 monthly metrics (12 average temperatures + 12 average precipitations), normalized so temperature and precipitation contribute equally.

Side-by-side: Airway Heights vs its climate twin

Top match: La Grande, OR

Month Airway Heights La Grande
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.5°F 24.7°F 1.97 in 39.3°F 24.6°F 1.67 in
February 39.5°F 26.3°F 1.44 in 44.0°F 26.8°F 1.23 in
March 48.6°F 31.5°F 1.83 in 51.6°F 30.6°F 1.72 in
April 56.9°F 37.0°F 1.25 in 58.7°F 35.2°F 1.83 in
May 67.1°F 44.9°F 1.55 in 67.8°F 42.5°F 2.24 in
June 73.7°F 50.8°F 1.17 in 74.9°F 48.7°F 1.37 in
July 84.4°F 57.6°F 0.42 in 86.2°F 54.5°F 0.60 in
August 83.8°F 56.7°F 0.47 in 87.0°F 52.8°F 0.67 in
September 73.6°F 48.6°F 0.58 in 77.3°F 44.8°F 0.67 in
October 57.7°F 38.0°F 1.37 in 62.4°F 35.6°F 1.58 in
November 42.3°F 30.3°F 2.06 in 47.7°F 30.0°F 1.94 in
December 33.8°F 24.3°F 2.34 in 38.7°F 24.4°F 1.88 in

Cities that consider Airway Heights their climate twin

These US cities have Airway Heights in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Airway Heights would feel familiar.

How this is computed

Each city is represented by a 24-dimensional vector: 12 monthly average temperatures and 12 monthly average precipitations. Each dimension is z-score normalized across the population of US cities, so that temperature variance and precipitation variance contribute proportionally. Distance between cities is Euclidean. We filter out cities within 2° latitude/longitude (~140 miles) so that "twins" mean climatically similar but geographically distinct — not just the neighboring town. Full methodology →