Climate twins of Dos Palos, CA

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

Top match: Hesperia, CA

Month Dos Palos Hesperia
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.6°F 39.3°F 2.07 in 60.2°F 36.6°F 1.49 in
February 61.7°F 42.5°F 1.83 in 61.9°F 38.8°F 1.57 in
March 67.7°F 46.1°F 1.34 in 69.1°F 41.7°F 1.29 in
April 73.3°F 49.4°F 0.65 in 75.0°F 45.7°F 0.46 in
May 81.2°F 55.2°F 0.46 in 82.3°F 52.5°F 0.15 in
June 88.9°F 60.4°F 0.08 in 91.8°F 59.2°F 0.11 in
July 94.6°F 63.8°F 0.02 in 96.8°F 65.0°F 0.22 in
August 93.9°F 62.8°F 0.01 in 97.0°F 65.0°F 0.12 in
September 89.6°F 60.1°F 0.05 in 91.4°F 60.9°F 0.17 in
October 79.2°F 52.7°F 0.46 in 80.5°F 51.2°F 0.55 in
November 65.5°F 44.3°F 0.85 in 67.4°F 41.8°F 0.49 in
December 55.8°F 38.4°F 1.66 in 59.0°F 35.2°F 1.23 in

Cities that consider Dos Palos their climate twin

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