Climate twins of Buckeye, AZ

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Buckeye'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.

Rank 1 closest
Palm Springs, CA
similarity distance: 1.320 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Imperial, CA
similarity distance: 1.365 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Cathedral City, CA
similarity distance: 1.369 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Buckeye vs its climate twin

Top match: Palm Springs, CA

Month Buckeye Palm Springs
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 66.1°F 42.9°F 0.96 in 70.6°F 47.2°F 1.42 in
February 70.2°F 45.9°F 1.20 in 73.3°F 49.2°F 1.11 in
March 77.7°F 51.2°F 0.95 in 80.4°F 53.5°F 0.55 in
April 85.5°F 57.0°F 0.29 in 87.7°F 58.6°F 0.10 in
May 94.3°F 65.3°F 0.13 in 94.3°F 64.8°F 0.01 in
June 104.0°F 73.7°F 0.03 in 103.1°F 71.9°F 0.00 in
July 106.5°F 81.2°F 0.76 in 107.8°F 78.5°F 0.25 in
August 104.7°F 80.6°F 1.06 in 107.5°F 78.8°F 0.18 in
September 99.3°F 73.8°F 0.79 in 102.1°F 73.2°F 0.21 in
October 88.1°F 60.9°F 0.57 in 91.2°F 63.7°F 0.18 in
November 74.6°F 49.3°F 0.59 in 78.4°F 53.7°F 0.28 in
December 64.5°F 42.0°F 0.85 in 68.6°F 45.3°F 0.82 in

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 →