Climate twins of Lake Havasu City, AZ

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

Top match: San Luis, AZ

Month	Lake Havasu City			San Luis
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	65.2°F	42.7°F	0.75 in	69.8°F	47.9°F	0.39 in
February	70.4°F	45.8°F	0.61 in	73.4°F	50.4°F	0.38 in
March	78.1°F	51.4°F	0.48 in	80.2°F	55.0°F	0.39 in
April	85.8°F	57.7°F	0.16 in	86.4°F	59.8°F	0.14 in
May	95.2°F	66.9°F	0.03 in	94.3°F	66.9°F	0.06 in
June	105.1°F	75.5°F	0.01 in	103.3°F	75.0°F	0.01 in
July	109.3°F	82.7°F	0.26 in	106.7°F	82.6°F	0.24 in
August	108.1°F	82.3°F	0.38 in	106.4°F	83.2°F	0.20 in
September	101.9°F	74.5°F	0.36 in	101.4°F	77.6°F	0.68 in
October	89.1°F	61.6°F	0.28 in	90.2°F	65.7°F	0.13 in
November	74.9°F	50.0°F	0.30 in	77.7°F	54.4°F	0.23 in
December	63.8°F	41.8°F	0.54 in	67.8°F	46.8°F	0.43 in

Cities that consider Lake Havasu City their climate twin

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

San Luis, AZ (ranks Lake Havasu City #2)
Cathedral City, CA (ranks Lake Havasu City #3)
Rancho Mirage, CA (ranks Lake Havasu City #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 →