Climate twins of Hood River, OR
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Hood River'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: Hood River vs its climate twin
Top match: Shady Cove, OR
| Month | Hood River | Shady Cove | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 40.8°F | 30.4°F | 5.23 in | 48.8°F | 30.9°F | 4.93 in |
| February | 46.2°F | 31.2°F | 3.51 in | 53.9°F | 31.2°F | 3.43 in |
| March | 53.3°F | 34.5°F | 3.18 in | 58.5°F | 33.8°F | 3.54 in |
| April | 60.0°F | 39.2°F | 1.84 in | 63.5°F | 37.4°F | 2.92 in |
| May | 68.4°F | 45.6°F | 1.32 in | 72.3°F | 42.6°F | 2.03 in |
| June | 73.6°F | 51.1°F | 0.82 in | 79.9°F | 46.6°F | 1.13 in |
| July | 81.7°F | 55.5°F | 0.24 in | 90.4°F | 51.9°F | 0.44 in |
| August | 82.4°F | 54.7°F | 0.24 in | 90.5°F | 51.2°F | 0.33 in |
| September | 75.9°F | 47.3°F | 0.71 in | 84.4°F | 45.3°F | 0.79 in |
| October | 62.8°F | 39.1°F | 2.64 in | 70.3°F | 37.8°F | 2.35 in |
| November | 48.6°F | 34.3°F | 4.83 in | 54.6°F | 33.9°F | 4.85 in |
| December | 40.2°F | 30.6°F | 5.86 in | 46.9°F | 30.9°F | 6.33 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 →