Climate twins of Inkom, ID

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

Top match: Sterling, UT

Month Inkom Sterling
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.9°F 19.7°F 1.14 in 37.9°F 18.5°F 0.99 in
February 40.6°F 22.1°F 1.04 in 42.6°F 22.5°F 0.97 in
March 50.5°F 28.9°F 1.27 in 53.1°F 29.2°F 1.27 in
April 58.2°F 34.2°F 1.41 in 59.4°F 34.1°F 1.39 in
May 68.5°F 42.1°F 1.54 in 69.0°F 41.8°F 1.47 in
June 78.5°F 48.9°F 1.11 in 79.8°F 49.7°F 0.91 in
July 89.3°F 57.0°F 0.64 in 87.1°F 57.1°F 0.69 in
August 87.7°F 56.1°F 0.85 in 85.1°F 55.7°F 0.83 in
September 77.1°F 47.6°F 1.18 in 76.9°F 47.3°F 1.06 in
October 61.5°F 37.0°F 1.09 in 64.2°F 36.3°F 1.26 in
November 46.3°F 27.1°F 1.00 in 50.0°F 26.6°F 0.99 in
December 35.0°F 19.7°F 1.21 in 37.6°F 18.5°F 1.22 in

Cities that consider Inkom their climate twin

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