Climate twins of Malta, ID

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Malta'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
Ely, NV
similarity distance: 0.611 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Baker City, OR
similarity distance: 0.844 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Pinesdale, MT
similarity distance: 0.859 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Malta vs its climate twin

Top match: Ely, NV

Month Malta Ely
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 36.3°F 17.1°F 0.70 in 41.0°F 12.4°F 0.75 in
February 41.5°F 20.3°F 0.41 in 43.8°F 16.2°F 0.84 in
March 52.2°F 24.4°F 0.75 in 52.4°F 22.9°F 0.98 in
April 58.1°F 30.0°F 1.01 in 58.9°F 27.5°F 1.07 in
May 67.8°F 36.5°F 1.46 in 68.9°F 34.0°F 1.05 in
June 77.9°F 42.4°F 0.65 in 81.1°F 41.4°F 0.56 in
July 87.6°F 48.4°F 0.73 in 89.4°F 49.1°F 0.63 in
August 86.5°F 47.6°F 0.92 in 87.3°F 47.6°F 0.79 in
September 76.7°F 39.8°F 0.88 in 78.0°F 38.8°F 0.64 in
October 62.7°F 30.8°F 0.82 in 64.5°F 28.3°F 0.80 in
November 47.5°F 23.0°F 0.58 in 50.9°F 19.2°F 0.63 in
December 36.3°F 16.6°F 0.70 in 40.8°F 11.7°F 0.67 in

Cities that consider Malta their climate twin

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