Climate twins of Grace, ID

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

Top match: Rawlins, WY

Month Grace Rawlins
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.5°F 13.3°F 1.13 in 31.0°F 14.8°F 1.08 in
February 34.4°F 15.7°F 0.98 in 32.5°F 16.3°F 1.02 in
March 43.8°F 23.8°F 1.30 in 42.4°F 23.6°F 1.60 in
April 53.7°F 30.7°F 1.45 in 51.0°F 29.8°F 1.74 in
May 63.9°F 37.7°F 2.38 in 62.4°F 38.1°F 2.36 in
June 74.3°F 44.1°F 1.32 in 74.4°F 48.0°F 1.39 in
July 85.3°F 50.0°F 0.76 in 81.6°F 55.3°F 1.02 in
August 84.1°F 48.5°F 1.04 in 79.6°F 53.3°F 1.09 in
September 73.4°F 40.9°F 1.38 in 71.1°F 45.3°F 1.49 in
October 58.7°F 31.7°F 1.40 in 55.9°F 33.6°F 1.69 in
November 42.8°F 22.7°F 0.92 in 40.7°F 24.5°F 1.24 in
December 31.6°F 14.4°F 0.99 in 30.5°F 15.5°F 1.14 in

Cities that consider Grace their climate twin

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