Climate twins of Maricopa, CA

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
Hesperia, CA
similarity distance: 1.084 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Yucca Valley, CA
similarity distance: 1.322 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Barstow, CA
similarity distance: 1.407 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Maricopa vs its climate twin

Top match: Hesperia, CA

Month Maricopa Hesperia
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.1°F 40.5°F 1.09 in 60.2°F 36.6°F 1.49 in
February 63.1°F 43.8°F 1.21 in 61.9°F 38.8°F 1.57 in
March 70.0°F 48.4°F 0.97 in 69.1°F 41.7°F 1.29 in
April 76.0°F 49.6°F 0.58 in 75.0°F 45.7°F 0.46 in
May 84.1°F 56.4°F 0.41 in 82.3°F 52.5°F 0.15 in
June 92.6°F 59.8°F 0.04 in 91.8°F 59.2°F 0.11 in
July 98.7°F 67.8°F 0.02 in 96.8°F 65.0°F 0.22 in
August 98.0°F 65.8°F 0.01 in 97.0°F 65.0°F 0.12 in
September 92.4°F 62.1°F 0.06 in 91.4°F 60.9°F 0.17 in
October 81.0°F 54.1°F 0.32 in 80.5°F 51.2°F 0.55 in
November 66.8°F 46.7°F 0.39 in 67.4°F 41.8°F 0.49 in
December 58.6°F 40.7°F 0.88 in 59.0°F 35.2°F 1.23 in

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 →