Climate twins of California City, CA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches California City'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: California City vs its climate twin
Top match: Avenal, CA
| Month | California City | Avenal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 57.9°F | 32.8°F | 1.08 in | 56.6°F | 36.0°F | 1.39 in |
| February | 60.4°F | 34.9°F | 1.49 in | 63.3°F | 39.6°F | 1.47 in |
| March | 66.5°F | 40.3°F | 0.80 in | 69.5°F | 43.4°F | 1.46 in |
| April | 71.6°F | 45.3°F | 0.21 in | 75.5°F | 48.0°F | 0.59 in |
| May | 80.8°F | 53.2°F | 0.13 in | 84.4°F | 55.4°F | 0.37 in |
| June | 90.8°F | 63.6°F | 0.03 in | 92.4°F | 61.7°F | 0.04 in |
| July | 97.2°F | 69.1°F | 0.18 in | 98.7°F | 67.5°F | 0.13 in |
| August | 97.2°F | 67.2°F | 0.17 in | 97.5°F | 66.2°F | 0.02 in |
| September | 89.5°F | 60.6°F | 0.10 in | 92.2°F | 60.6°F | 0.06 in |
| October | 78.4°F | 49.4°F | 0.42 in | 81.4°F | 51.4°F | 0.16 in |
| November | 66.2°F | 38.6°F | 0.34 in | 67.3°F | 41.2°F | 0.57 in |
| December | 56.5°F | 31.8°F | 0.81 in | 57.5°F | 35.6°F | 1.24 in |
Cities that consider California City their climate twin
These US cities have California City in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, California City would feel familiar.
- Avenal, CA (ranks California City #3)
- Kingman, AZ (ranks California City #1)
- Hurricane, UT (ranks California City #3)
- Virgin, UT (ranks California City #3)
- Washington, UT (ranks California City #3)
- Ivins, UT (ranks California City #3)
- St. George, UT (ranks California City #3)
- Santa Clara, UT (ranks California City #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 →