Climate twins of Delano, CA

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

Top match: Yucca Valley, CA

Month	Delano			Yucca Valley
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	56.0°F	37.7°F	1.40 in	58.0°F	37.6°F	1.41 in
February	62.8°F	40.9°F	1.32 in	60.8°F	38.5°F	1.22 in
March	69.2°F	44.8°F	1.39 in	67.2°F	39.9°F	0.78 in
April	75.0°F	49.1°F	0.62 in	73.4°F	46.5°F	0.25 in
May	83.1°F	55.5°F	0.38 in	82.1°F	52.0°F	0.06 in
June	92.2°F	61.8°F	0.09 in	90.9°F	59.4°F	0.00 in
July	97.3°F	67.6°F	0.04 in	96.4°F	65.7°F	0.46 in
August	96.5°F	65.5°F	0.00 in	95.6°F	67.8°F	0.17 in
September	90.7°F	61.6°F	0.04 in	89.4°F	60.4°F	0.15 in
October	79.6°F	52.6°F	0.37 in	79.7°F	49.9°F	0.61 in
November	66.3°F	42.5°F	0.67 in	66.4°F	40.8°F	0.27 in
December	57.2°F	36.7°F	1.19 in	58.3°F	34.1°F	0.87 in

Cities that consider Delano their climate twin

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

Yucca Valley, CA (ranks Delano #3)
Apple Valley, CA (ranks Delano #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 →