Climate twins of Fort Bragg, CA

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

Top match: Myrtle Point, OR

Month Fort Bragg Myrtle Point
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.6°F 40.3°F 7.66 in 54.7°F 37.1°F 8.72 in
February 53.8°F 40.5°F 7.27 in 56.5°F 37.3°F 6.61 in
March 55.0°F 41.0°F 6.43 in 57.9°F 38.6°F 7.06 in
April 57.2°F 42.4°F 3.60 in 60.4°F 40.7°F 5.01 in
May 60.1°F 45.1°F 1.57 in 64.6°F 44.9°F 2.73 in
June 63.0°F 47.3°F 0.74 in 68.3°F 48.4°F 1.44 in
July 65.0°F 49.0°F 0.07 in 72.2°F 51.5°F 0.34 in
August 65.2°F 49.7°F 0.10 in 73.6°F 51.4°F 0.37 in
September 64.7°F 48.7°F 0.25 in 73.0°F 47.7°F 1.26 in
October 61.5°F 46.1°F 2.26 in 67.0°F 43.2°F 3.65 in
November 55.9°F 42.6°F 4.55 in 58.8°F 39.8°F 7.66 in
December 51.5°F 39.8°F 8.66 in 53.6°F 36.4°F 10.01 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 →