Climate twins of Gooding, ID

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

Top match: Lind, WA

Month Gooding Lind
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.1°F 22.2°F 1.32 in 37.8°F 26.5°F 1.29 in
February 44.9°F 24.5°F 0.86 in 44.3°F 28.9°F 0.88 in
March 55.4°F 30.6°F 1.03 in 54.0°F 33.0°F 1.05 in
April 62.4°F 35.4°F 0.83 in 62.5°F 36.9°F 0.83 in
May 72.3°F 43.5°F 1.03 in 72.4°F 43.1°F 0.86 in
June 81.6°F 50.1°F 0.57 in 79.2°F 48.7°F 0.69 in
July 91.9°F 55.9°F 0.15 in 89.2°F 54.6°F 0.34 in
August 90.5°F 52.9°F 0.18 in 88.2°F 54.2°F 0.24 in
September 80.5°F 44.4°F 0.42 in 78.6°F 46.8°F 0.34 in
October 65.9°F 34.9°F 0.73 in 62.9°F 37.7°F 0.92 in
November 49.5°F 27.4°F 1.11 in 46.6°F 31.0°F 1.29 in
December 37.8°F 22.4°F 1.58 in 36.7°F 25.8°F 1.40 in

Cities that consider Gooding their climate twin

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