Climate twins of Creston, WA

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

Top match: Hines, OR

Month	Creston			Hines
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	31.8°F	19.5°F	1.63 in	36.7°F	16.3°F	1.33 in
February	38.3°F	21.3°F	0.88 in	41.7°F	20.2°F	0.95 in
March	47.9°F	27.1°F	1.27 in	51.1°F	26.3°F	0.96 in
April	57.5°F	30.8°F	0.93 in	58.1°F	29.8°F	0.94 in
May	67.9°F	38.9°F	1.17 in	68.2°F	37.4°F	1.27 in
June	74.6°F	43.9°F	0.93 in	76.7°F	42.6°F	0.73 in
July	84.9°F	50.0°F	0.65 in	88.7°F	48.6°F	0.29 in
August	84.3°F	49.0°F	0.27 in	87.2°F	45.8°F	0.25 in
September	74.6°F	41.7°F	0.45 in	78.2°F	37.4°F	0.38 in
October	58.5°F	32.1°F	1.03 in	63.1°F	28.0°F	0.77 in
November	42.2°F	25.6°F	1.62 in	47.3°F	22.1°F	1.02 in
December	32.1°F	19.5°F	1.69 in	36.4°F	15.5°F	1.52 in

Cities that consider Creston their climate twin

These US cities have Creston in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Creston would feel familiar.

Burns, OR (ranks Creston #2)
Hines, OR (ranks Creston #2)
Stevensville, MT (ranks Creston #3)
Hamilton, MT (ranks Creston #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 →