Climate twins of Mammoth, AZ

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

Top match: Jerome, AZ

Month Mammoth Jerome
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.5°F 30.7°F 1.38 in 49.5°F 34.6°F 1.77 in
February 61.6°F 33.7°F 1.51 in 53.3°F 36.2°F 1.82 in
March 67.4°F 38.0°F 0.99 in 60.6°F 40.9°F 1.66 in
April 73.7°F 44.9°F 0.50 in 68.2°F 46.4°F 0.72 in
May 83.3°F 50.7°F 0.34 in 77.5°F 54.9°F 0.51 in
June 93.6°F 61.8°F 0.42 in 89.0°F 65.5°F 0.32 in
July 93.6°F 69.0°F 2.29 in 91.3°F 68.5°F 2.37 in
August 91.0°F 66.1°F 3.57 in 88.0°F 66.8°F 3.04 in
September 88.2°F 58.8°F 1.25 in 82.3°F 62.1°F 1.64 in
October 79.7°F 48.8°F 0.82 in 71.2°F 52.7°F 1.30 in
November 68.2°F 38.9°F 1.02 in 58.5°F 42.0°F 0.87 in
December 59.1°F 31.4°F 1.50 in 48.7°F 34.2°F 1.69 in

Cities that consider Mammoth their climate twin

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