Climate twins of Council, ID

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

Top match: Highland, UT

Month Council Highland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 33.4°F 18.0°F 2.67 in 38.6°F 21.6°F 2.50 in
February 39.8°F 21.6°F 2.02 in 44.0°F 24.9°F 2.03 in
March 51.7°F 29.2°F 2.61 in 54.4°F 31.8°F 2.03 in
April 61.3°F 34.6°F 2.12 in 60.9°F 36.8°F 2.49 in
May 71.8°F 42.3°F 2.37 in 70.6°F 43.9°F 2.42 in
June 79.9°F 48.8°F 1.59 in 82.2°F 51.4°F 1.00 in
July 91.9°F 57.3°F 0.44 in 89.5°F 58.5°F 0.64 in
August 91.0°F 55.0°F 0.44 in 87.3°F 57.6°F 0.95 in
September 80.1°F 45.4°F 0.95 in 78.6°F 48.9°F 1.33 in
October 64.3°F 34.9°F 1.61 in 65.1°F 38.8°F 1.84 in
November 47.0°F 26.3°F 2.60 in 50.2°F 29.4°F 1.63 in
December 35.9°F 19.4°F 2.98 in 38.5°F 21.9°F 2.26 in

Cities that consider Council their climate twin

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