Climate twins of Dorris, CA

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

Top match: Goldendale, WA

Month Dorris Goldendale
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.1°F 21.0°F 2.88 in 37.9°F 23.9°F 2.75 in
February 46.2°F 22.7°F 1.96 in 44.0°F 25.1°F 1.78 in
March 52.1°F 26.1°F 1.84 in 51.8°F 29.1°F 1.61 in
April 58.0°F 29.8°F 1.64 in 59.2°F 32.7°F 1.09 in
May 67.9°F 37.0°F 1.32 in 68.7°F 39.3°F 1.04 in
June 77.2°F 42.7°F 0.69 in 75.6°F 44.6°F 0.55 in
July 88.1°F 48.5°F 0.31 in 86.1°F 49.7°F 0.12 in
August 86.6°F 47.0°F 0.43 in 86.1°F 49.2°F 0.15 in
September 79.4°F 39.3°F 0.50 in 77.3°F 41.6°F 0.44 in
October 64.2°F 30.6°F 1.29 in 62.2°F 33.6°F 1.36 in
November 49.1°F 25.2°F 2.44 in 46.8°F 27.8°F 2.43 in
December 40.1°F 20.9°F 3.59 in 36.9°F 23.8°F 3.18 in

Cities that consider Dorris their climate twin

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