Climate twins of Colfax, CA

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

Top match: Cloverdale, CA

Month Colfax Cloverdale
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.9°F 36.7°F 7.83 in 59.8°F 38.3°F 8.11 in
February 56.9°F 37.4°F 8.02 in 63.4°F 40.2°F 8.06 in
March 60.3°F 39.5°F 7.24 in 68.1°F 42.4°F 5.69 in
April 65.6°F 42.6°F 3.58 in 73.8°F 44.9°F 2.53 in
May 74.2°F 49.1°F 2.27 in 81.5°F 49.8°F 1.51 in
June 83.4°F 56.1°F 0.70 in 89.4°F 54.4°F 0.30 in
July 92.1°F 62.5°F 0.02 in 94.4°F 55.2°F 0.01 in
August 91.4°F 61.1°F 0.11 in 93.1°F 54.8°F 0.05 in
September 86.4°F 57.1°F 0.35 in 89.8°F 53.6°F 0.13 in
October 75.0°F 48.8°F 2.11 in 80.6°F 48.9°F 1.84 in
November 61.1°F 40.8°F 5.15 in 66.8°F 42.3°F 4.69 in
December 53.5°F 36.1°F 8.52 in 58.7°F 37.7°F 8.81 in

Cities that consider Colfax their climate twin

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