Climate twins of Lakewood, WA
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.
Side-by-side: Lakewood vs its climate twin
Top match: Amity, OR
| Month | Lakewood | Amity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 46.3°F | 36.4°F | 6.06 in | 47.3°F | 35.2°F | 5.51 in |
| February | 48.4°F | 36.5°F | 4.11 in | 51.0°F | 35.3°F | 4.08 in |
| March | 53.1°F | 38.5°F | 4.63 in | 55.7°F | 37.1°F | 4.17 in |
| April | 57.5°F | 41.4°F | 3.39 in | 60.5°F | 39.7°F | 2.99 in |
| May | 64.5°F | 46.5°F | 2.08 in | 68.0°F | 44.3°F | 1.99 in |
| June | 69.7°F | 50.7°F | 1.36 in | 73.7°F | 48.3°F | 1.32 in |
| July | 75.5°F | 54.0°F | 0.68 in | 82.7°F | 51.9°F | 0.25 in |
| August | 75.6°F | 54.3°F | 0.86 in | 83.1°F | 51.9°F | 0.36 in |
| September | 69.6°F | 51.4°F | 1.54 in | 77.0°F | 48.2°F | 1.30 in |
| October | 58.6°F | 45.7°F | 4.32 in | 64.0°F | 42.3°F | 3.48 in |
| November | 50.5°F | 39.8°F | 7.18 in | 52.6°F | 37.9°F | 5.74 in |
| December | 45.5°F | 36.2°F | 5.81 in | 46.5°F | 34.4°F | 6.45 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 →