Climate twins of Ione, CA

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

Top match: Anderson, CA

Month Ione Anderson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.8°F 39.2°F 6.06 in 57.2°F 37.7°F 6.04 in
February 58.0°F 41.5°F 5.66 in 61.0°F 40.1°F 5.48 in
March 62.0°F 42.1°F 4.90 in 65.7°F 43.2°F 4.62 in
April 66.7°F 45.0°F 2.78 in 71.8°F 47.0°F 2.41 in
May 75.0°F 50.9°F 1.69 in 82.0°F 54.3°F 1.81 in
June 86.0°F 56.9°F 0.38 in 91.9°F 62.4°F 0.75 in
July 93.4°F 62.6°F 0.02 in 99.9°F 67.0°F 0.07 in
August 91.9°F 61.9°F 0.04 in 98.1°F 63.9°F 0.13 in
September 86.7°F 59.5°F 0.26 in 92.3°F 58.2°F 0.45 in
October 76.5°F 52.9°F 1.71 in 79.4°F 50.2°F 1.92 in
November 63.3°F 44.1°F 3.12 in 64.4°F 41.5°F 3.53 in
December 55.0°F 38.8°F 5.40 in 56.0°F 37.2°F 6.31 in

Cities that consider Ione their climate twin

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