Climate twins of Bettles, AK

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

Top match: Ruby, AK

Month	Bettles			Ruby
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	-2.4°F	-18.9°F	0.87 in	-2.7°F	-16.8°F	0.60 in
February	6.5°F	-13.3°F	0.96 in	9.0°F	-9.5°F	0.75 in
March	16.6°F	-9.2°F	0.61 in	18.6°F	-4.8°F	0.59 in
April	35.9°F	13.2°F	0.60 in	37.7°F	16.8°F	0.33 in
May	55.7°F	34.2°F	0.89 in	56.6°F	34.6°F	0.44 in
June	69.9°F	47.3°F	1.46 in	68.7°F	47.3°F	1.59 in
July	70.2°F	49.4°F	2.32 in	69.4°F	51.1°F	2.04 in
August	62.6°F	42.7°F	2.71 in	62.4°F	45.6°F	2.47 in
September	49.8°F	32.6°F	2.13 in	51.7°F	35.4°F	1.75 in
October	28.4°F	14.3°F	1.17 in	31.4°F	19.6°F	1.18 in
November	7.6°F	-7.0°F	1.15 in	11.6°F	-0.6°F	1.24 in
December	1.9°F	-13.9°F	1.14 in	2.7°F	-11.5°F	0.95 in

Cities that consider Bettles their climate twin

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

Galena, AK (ranks Bettles #3)
Koyukuk, AK (ranks Bettles #3)
Ruby, AK (ranks Bettles #3)

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 →