Climate twins of Kotzebue, AK

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

Top match: Kivalina, AK

Month	Kotzebue			Kivalina
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	4.5°F	-8.4°F	0.62 in	6.6°F	-9.0°F	0.28 in
February	8.6°F	-5.8°F	0.85 in	9.7°F	-7.1°F	0.44 in
March	9.1°F	-6.0°F	0.52 in	9.4°F	-7.6°F	0.18 in
April	23.8°F	8.8°F	0.56 in	23.6°F	6.0°F	0.56 in
May	39.0°F	27.3°F	0.44 in	38.2°F	25.9°F	0.57 in
June	53.2°F	41.8°F	0.60 in	50.0°F	37.8°F	0.79 in
July	60.1°F	50.5°F	1.60 in	56.3°F	45.5°F	1.41 in
August	56.6°F	47.7°F	2.13 in	54.5°F	43.7°F	2.33 in
September	47.5°F	38.7°F	1.42 in	46.2°F	35.1°F	1.52 in
October	30.8°F	23.0°F	1.07 in	30.5°F	20.6°F	0.93 in
November	15.9°F	5.6°F	0.82 in	17.3°F	5.5°F	0.51 in
December	8.6°F	-3.8°F	0.73 in	10.0°F	-4.1°F	0.17 in

Cities that consider Kotzebue their climate twin

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

Kivalina, AK (ranks Kotzebue #2)
Nuiqsut, AK (ranks Kotzebue #3)
Utqiaġvik, AK (ranks Kotzebue #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 →