Climate twins of Lava Hot Springs, ID

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

Top match: Francis, UT

Month Lava Hot Springs Francis
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 31.9°F 14.0°F 1.99 in 34.8°F 15.2°F 1.79 in
February 36.5°F 17.2°F 1.32 in 38.2°F 17.4°F 1.34 in
March 46.9°F 25.0°F 1.91 in 47.2°F 24.7°F 1.46 in
April 56.1°F 31.3°F 1.76 in 55.4°F 29.8°F 1.55 in
May 66.2°F 38.5°F 2.27 in 65.3°F 36.3°F 1.66 in
June 76.2°F 44.7°F 1.32 in 76.2°F 42.7°F 0.95 in
July 87.2°F 51.0°F 0.76 in 84.5°F 49.8°F 0.82 in
August 85.7°F 48.7°F 1.05 in 82.9°F 48.7°F 1.08 in
September 74.8°F 40.7°F 1.43 in 73.6°F 40.7°F 1.52 in
October 59.7°F 32.0°F 1.40 in 59.2°F 31.2°F 1.60 in
November 44.4°F 23.6°F 1.34 in 44.7°F 22.8°F 1.38 in
December 32.9°F 15.2°F 1.70 in 34.4°F 15.6°F 1.49 in

Cities that consider Lava Hot Springs their climate twin

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

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 →