Climate twins of Auburn, CA

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Auburn'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: Auburn vs its climate twin

Top match: Ukiah, CA

Month Auburn Ukiah
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 56.3°F 37.8°F 7.01 in 56.9°F 37.4°F 7.39 in
February 59.4°F 40.0°F 6.50 in 60.2°F 38.3°F 6.98 in
March 63.1°F 42.3°F 6.12 in 64.8°F 39.7°F 5.33 in
April 68.1°F 44.8°F 2.84 in 69.6°F 42.4°F 2.81 in
May 76.9°F 51.5°F 1.65 in 76.3°F 47.3°F 1.71 in
June 85.7°F 57.5°F 0.41 in 82.8°F 51.9°F 0.41 in
July 92.7°F 63.4°F 0.01 in 91.1°F 55.6°F 0.00 in
August 92.0°F 62.8°F 0.07 in 90.6°F 54.2°F 0.05 in
September 86.8°F 59.5°F 0.24 in 87.0°F 51.3°F 0.20 in
October 76.9°F 51.6°F 1.42 in 76.7°F 45.5°F 1.95 in
November 63.8°F 43.1°F 3.05 in 62.8°F 40.0°F 4.11 in
December 55.8°F 37.2°F 6.80 in 55.6°F 36.2°F 7.96 in

Cities that consider Auburn their climate twin

These US cities have Auburn in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Auburn 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 →