Climate twins of Homer, AK

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

Top match: Telluride, CO

Month	Homer			Telluride
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	31.8°F	19.0°F	2.15 in	36.2°F	0.3°F	1.45 in
February	34.9°F	21.7°F	1.82 in	37.6°F	5.3°F	1.38 in
March	37.1°F	23.1°F	1.32 in	43.7°F	12.9°F	1.61 in
April	46.1°F	31.3°F	1.15 in	50.8°F	22.0°F	1.71 in
May	53.8°F	38.2°F	0.78 in	60.4°F	28.8°F	1.60 in
June	59.3°F	44.7°F	0.87 in	72.5°F	34.2°F	0.85 in
July	63.1°F	49.2°F	1.45 in	76.7°F	40.7°F	2.37 in
August	62.6°F	48.0°F	2.31 in	74.1°F	40.2°F	2.60 in
September	56.7°F	42.3°F	3.28 in	68.0°F	33.6°F	2.34 in
October	47.1°F	33.3°F	2.61 in	57.4°F	23.4°F	1.56 in
November	37.6°F	24.8°F	2.87 in	45.4°F	12.6°F	1.53 in
December	34.0°F	21.4°F	3.27 in	36.2°F	1.8°F	1.37 in

Cities that consider Homer their climate twin

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

St. Paul, AK (ranks Homer #2)
St. George, AK (ranks Homer #2)
King Cove, AK (ranks Homer #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 →