Climate twins of McCall, ID

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

Top match: Unity, OR

Month McCall Unity
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.6°F 13.5°F 2.46 in 34.4°F 15.2°F 2.56 in
February 35.2°F 14.6°F 2.32 in 39.4°F 18.5°F 1.74 in
March 42.1°F 20.8°F 2.71 in 46.1°F 23.2°F 1.92 in
April 49.9°F 27.7°F 2.43 in 52.9°F 27.8°F 1.66 in
May 61.1°F 35.9°F 2.30 in 62.0°F 33.8°F 1.84 in
June 69.0°F 41.6°F 2.03 in 71.3°F 38.5°F 1.62 in
July 81.0°F 47.2°F 0.58 in 83.4°F 43.2°F 0.69 in
August 80.5°F 45.4°F 0.54 in 82.7°F 42.0°F 0.71 in
September 70.6°F 37.8°F 0.96 in 73.3°F 34.8°F 0.79 in
October 55.6°F 29.4°F 1.60 in 58.5°F 28.2°F 1.25 in
November 40.4°F 21.3°F 2.30 in 42.0°F 22.2°F 2.66 in
December 30.1°F 13.9°F 2.83 in 33.5°F 16.0°F 3.32 in

Cities that consider McCall their climate twin

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