Climate twins of Klawock, AK
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Klawock'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: Klawock vs its climate twin
Top match: Seward, AK
| Month | Klawock | Seward | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 39.5°F | 31.1°F | 8.65 in | 31.3°F | 21.1°F | 6.47 in |
| February | 41.3°F | 30.4°F | 6.33 in | 34.3°F | 23.5°F | 6.35 in |
| March | 44.3°F | 31.4°F | 6.82 in | 37.3°F | 24.9°F | 3.85 in |
| April | 50.7°F | 35.2°F | 5.51 in | 45.4°F | 32.2°F | 4.29 in |
| May | 56.8°F | 41.1°F | 4.10 in | 53.4°F | 39.2°F | 3.50 in |
| June | 60.5°F | 46.4°F | 3.41 in | 59.0°F | 45.7°F | 2.34 in |
| July | 63.1°F | 50.6°F | 4.27 in | 62.2°F | 50.2°F | 3.11 in |
| August | 64.3°F | 50.6°F | 6.79 in | 62.0°F | 49.6°F | 5.39 in |
| September | 59.8°F | 46.8°F | 10.72 in | 55.7°F | 43.4°F | 9.90 in |
| October | 51.7°F | 39.7°F | 12.33 in | 45.7°F | 34.7°F | 8.69 in |
| November | 43.5°F | 34.3°F | 10.17 in | 36.1°F | 26.6°F | 7.60 in |
| December | 40.1°F | 31.4°F | 10.10 in | 33.2°F | 23.2°F | 8.22 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 →