Climate twins of Lind, WA

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Lind'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
Hagerman, ID
similarity distance: 0.632 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Gooding, ID
similarity distance: 0.632 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Bliss, ID
similarity distance: 0.632 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Lind vs its climate twin

Top match: Hagerman, ID

Month Lind Hagerman
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.8°F 26.5°F 1.29 in 38.1°F 22.2°F 1.32 in
February 44.3°F 28.9°F 0.88 in 44.9°F 24.5°F 0.86 in
March 54.0°F 33.0°F 1.05 in 55.4°F 30.6°F 1.03 in
April 62.5°F 36.9°F 0.83 in 62.4°F 35.4°F 0.83 in
May 72.4°F 43.1°F 0.86 in 72.3°F 43.5°F 1.03 in
June 79.2°F 48.7°F 0.69 in 81.6°F 50.1°F 0.57 in
July 89.2°F 54.6°F 0.34 in 91.9°F 55.9°F 0.15 in
August 88.2°F 54.2°F 0.24 in 90.5°F 52.9°F 0.18 in
September 78.6°F 46.8°F 0.34 in 80.5°F 44.4°F 0.42 in
October 62.9°F 37.7°F 0.92 in 65.9°F 34.9°F 0.73 in
November 46.6°F 31.0°F 1.29 in 49.5°F 27.4°F 1.11 in
December 36.7°F 25.8°F 1.40 in 37.8°F 22.4°F 1.58 in

Cities that consider Lind their climate twin

These US cities have Lind in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Lind 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 →