Climate twins of Mendon, UT
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Mendon'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: Mendon vs its climate twin
Top match: Hailey, ID
| Month | Mendon | Hailey | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 31.6°F | 12.5°F | 1.87 in | 34.9°F | 15.9°F | 2.06 in |
| February | 36.6°F | 15.7°F | 1.54 in | 37.7°F | 19.2°F | 1.50 in |
| March | 48.3°F | 26.6°F | 1.85 in | 48.0°F | 27.1°F | 1.41 in |
| April | 57.0°F | 33.6°F | 1.96 in | 58.9°F | 34.6°F | 1.11 in |
| May | 66.7°F | 40.8°F | 2.20 in | 67.4°F | 41.1°F | 2.07 in |
| June | 77.5°F | 47.8°F | 1.12 in | 76.6°F | 47.1°F | 1.29 in |
| July | 87.6°F | 54.5°F | 0.57 in | 87.5°F | 54.0°F | 0.61 in |
| August | 86.4°F | 52.6°F | 0.70 in | 85.5°F | 53.1°F | 0.71 in |
| September | 75.8°F | 43.4°F | 1.24 in | 76.0°F | 44.7°F | 0.84 in |
| October | 61.6°F | 32.2°F | 1.67 in | 60.8°F | 34.5°F | 1.75 in |
| November | 46.1°F | 23.8°F | 1.38 in | 44.8°F | 24.8°F | 1.73 in |
| December | 33.0°F | 14.1°F | 1.69 in | 34.2°F | 16.5°F | 2.44 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 →