Climate twins of Madras, OR

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

Top match: Alturas, CA

Month	Madras			Alturas
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	43.0°F	24.3°F	1.41 in	44.1°F	21.3°F	1.49 in
February	45.9°F	25.1°F	1.07 in	47.3°F	23.1°F	0.98 in
March	54.0°F	28.4°F	0.86 in	53.2°F	27.2°F	1.22 in
April	60.6°F	31.2°F	1.10 in	59.2°F	30.9°F	1.21 in
May	69.4°F	38.6°F	1.30 in	69.6°F	37.4°F	1.39 in
June	76.9°F	44.3°F	0.78 in	79.1°F	42.2°F	0.71 in
July	87.1°F	49.5°F	0.41 in	89.7°F	46.3°F	0.23 in
August	86.4°F	49.6°F	0.30 in	88.2°F	44.4°F	0.30 in
September	77.6°F	43.3°F	0.34 in	81.0°F	38.1°F	0.37 in
October	63.0°F	35.1°F	0.85 in	67.0°F	30.7°F	0.94 in
November	49.3°F	28.3°F	1.22 in	51.8°F	25.1°F	1.39 in
December	41.3°F	23.2°F	1.56 in	41.5°F	22.5°F	1.51 in

Cities that consider Madras their climate twin

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

Alturas, CA (ranks Madras #1)

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 →