Climate twins of Maricopa, AZ

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Maricopa'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
Wellton, AZ
similarity distance: 0.923 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Blythe, CA
similarity distance: 1.023 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Henderson, NV
similarity distance: 1.060 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Maricopa vs its climate twin

Top match: Wellton, AZ

Month Maricopa Wellton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 69.0°F 36.7°F 0.77 in 68.4°F 43.3°F 0.58 in
February 72.9°F 39.8°F 0.79 in 71.9°F 45.4°F 0.59 in
March 80.2°F 44.5°F 0.91 in 78.8°F 50.5°F 0.43 in
April 88.2°F 50.8°F 0.20 in 85.4°F 55.7°F 0.09 in
May 97.4°F 59.4°F 0.22 in 93.1°F 62.3°F 0.04 in
June 107.1°F 68.6°F 0.09 in 102.5°F 70.5°F 0.02 in
July 108.9°F 77.8°F 0.67 in 106.0°F 80.0°F 0.29 in
August 107.3°F 77.2°F 1.02 in 105.3°F 79.7°F 0.61 in
September 102.3°F 69.1°F 0.68 in 100.2°F 72.6°F 0.44 in
October 91.2°F 54.6°F 0.47 in 89.5°F 59.9°F 0.19 in
November 78.1°F 42.7°F 0.53 in 76.7°F 49.3°F 0.35 in
December 67.5°F 35.3°F 0.76 in 67.3°F 41.5°F 0.37 in

Cities that consider Maricopa their climate twin

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