Climate twins of Fairbanks, AK

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

Top match: Eagle, AK

Month	Fairbanks			Eagle
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	0.0°F	-14.8°F	0.57 in	-1.0°F	-17.3°F	0.60 in
February	13.1°F	-8.6°F	0.44 in	9.1°F	-12.1°F	0.44 in
March	26.6°F	-0.5°F	0.34 in	22.2°F	-7.7°F	0.39 in
April	46.9°F	21.3°F	0.34 in	43.8°F	15.2°F	0.34 in
May	63.1°F	37.1°F	0.64 in	61.2°F	33.1°F	1.06 in
June	72.2°F	48.5°F	2.01 in	72.3°F	44.7°F	1.73 in
July	72.9°F	51.6°F	2.62 in	73.4°F	47.9°F	2.55 in
August	66.1°F	46.2°F	2.44 in	66.5°F	41.6°F	2.18 in
September	54.9°F	35.1°F	1.59 in	54.0°F	30.9°F	1.25 in
October	34.0°F	17.9°F	0.77 in	33.3°F	15.7°F	0.94 in
November	11.6°F	-2.8°F	0.72 in	11.7°F	-4.1°F	0.72 in
December	2.9°F	-10.8°F	0.53 in	4.2°F	-12.4°F	0.67 in

Cities that consider Fairbanks their climate twin

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

McGrath, AK (ranks Fairbanks #3)
Nikolai, AK (ranks Fairbanks #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 →