Climate twins of Covington, WA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Covington'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: Covington vs its climate twin
Top match: Sweet Home, OR
| Month | Covington | Sweet Home | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 45.7°F | 33.0°F | 7.99 in | 47.5°F | 34.3°F | 7.15 in |
| February | 48.9°F | 32.8°F | 5.44 in | 51.2°F | 34.5°F | 5.56 in |
| March | 53.3°F | 34.7°F | 6.19 in | 55.5°F | 36.9°F | 6.26 in |
| April | 58.6°F | 38.5°F | 5.55 in | 60.3°F | 39.6°F | 5.37 in |
| May | 65.9°F | 43.9°F | 3.87 in | 67.0°F | 43.9°F | 3.80 in |
| June | 70.3°F | 48.2°F | 3.15 in | 72.9°F | 47.9°F | 2.46 in |
| July | 77.0°F | 51.4°F | 1.29 in | 81.7°F | 51.0°F | 0.54 in |
| August | 77.3°F | 51.5°F | 1.64 in | 82.6°F | 50.3°F | 0.64 in |
| September | 70.6°F | 46.9°F | 2.83 in | 76.4°F | 46.8°F | 1.99 in |
| October | 59.5°F | 41.2°F | 5.76 in | 64.1°F | 41.9°F | 4.64 in |
| November | 49.9°F | 35.7°F | 8.51 in | 52.9°F | 37.6°F | 7.64 in |
| December | 44.5°F | 32.3°F | 7.46 in | 46.5°F | 34.3°F | 8.40 in |
Cities that consider Covington their climate twin
These US cities have Covington in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Covington would feel familiar.
- Sweet Home, OR (ranks Covington #2)
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 →