Climate twins of Elk Grove, CA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Elk Grove'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: Elk Grove vs its climate twin
Top match: El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles), CA
| Month | Elk Grove | El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 56.0°F | 39.2°F | 3.66 in | 61.9°F | 34.2°F | 3.44 in |
| February | 61.3°F | 41.5°F | 3.49 in | 63.8°F | 36.8°F | 3.24 in |
| March | 66.3°F | 44.5°F | 2.68 in | 68.1°F | 39.6°F | 2.84 in |
| April | 72.1°F | 47.0°F | 1.26 in | 73.0°F | 41.4°F | 0.81 in |
| May | 80.3°F | 52.0°F | 0.75 in | 79.5°F | 46.1°F | 0.36 in |
| June | 87.9°F | 56.5°F | 0.23 in | 86.6°F | 50.0°F | 0.04 in |
| July | 92.6°F | 59.2°F | 0.00 in | 90.5°F | 53.4°F | 0.10 in |
| August | 91.9°F | 58.8°F | 0.04 in | 92.1°F | 52.6°F | 0.02 in |
| September | 88.5°F | 56.5°F | 0.09 in | 89.2°F | 49.5°F | 0.08 in |
| October | 78.8°F | 50.3°F | 0.85 in | 80.6°F | 43.4°F | 0.66 in |
| November | 65.0°F | 42.7°F | 1.66 in | 69.3°F | 36.6°F | 1.16 in |
| December | 56.0°F | 38.5°F | 3.43 in | 61.3°F | 32.6°F | 2.51 in |
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 →