Climate twins of Lakewood, CA

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Lakewood'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.

Rank 1 closest
Concord, CA
similarity distance: 1.732 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Brentwood, CA
similarity distance: 1.800 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Antioch, CA
similarity distance: 1.800 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Lakewood vs its climate twin

Top match: Concord, CA

Month Lakewood Concord
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 67.4°F 46.9°F 2.89 in 57.6°F 41.2°F 3.21 in
February 66.8°F 48.4°F 3.02 in 62.1°F 43.8°F 3.19 in
March 68.6°F 51.2°F 1.65 in 66.7°F 46.6°F 2.26 in
April 71.4°F 53.9°F 0.56 in 71.2°F 49.1°F 1.12 in
May 73.1°F 57.9°F 0.26 in 77.5°F 53.0°F 0.51 in
June 76.1°F 61.3°F 0.07 in 84.2°F 57.1°F 0.16 in
July 81.4°F 64.9°F 0.05 in 88.0°F 58.7°F 0.00 in
August 83.2°F 65.5°F 0.01 in 87.9°F 59.4°F 0.02 in
September 82.4°F 63.9°F 0.08 in 85.3°F 57.8°F 0.06 in
October 77.7°F 59.1°F 0.53 in 78.1°F 52.6°F 0.73 in
November 72.5°F 51.6°F 0.75 in 66.1°F 45.2°F 1.61 in
December 66.7°F 46.6°F 2.15 in 58.2°F 40.7°F 3.18 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 →