Climate twins of Mendota, CA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Mendota'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: Mendota vs its climate twin
Top match: Hesperia, CA
| Month | Mendota | Hesperia | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 56.9°F | 38.6°F | 2.08 in | 60.2°F | 36.6°F | 1.49 in |
| February | 62.6°F | 40.8°F | 1.99 in | 61.9°F | 38.8°F | 1.57 in |
| March | 68.5°F | 43.7°F | 1.98 in | 69.1°F | 41.7°F | 1.29 in |
| April | 75.0°F | 46.4°F | 0.89 in | 75.0°F | 45.7°F | 0.46 in |
| May | 83.9°F | 52.3°F | 0.47 in | 82.3°F | 52.5°F | 0.15 in |
| June | 92.2°F | 57.9°F | 0.16 in | 91.8°F | 59.2°F | 0.11 in |
| July | 97.7°F | 62.6°F | 0.01 in | 96.8°F | 65.0°F | 0.22 in |
| August | 96.7°F | 61.3°F | 0.00 in | 97.0°F | 65.0°F | 0.12 in |
| September | 91.7°F | 57.8°F | 0.03 in | 91.4°F | 60.9°F | 0.17 in |
| October | 80.1°F | 49.8°F | 0.44 in | 80.5°F | 51.2°F | 0.55 in |
| November | 66.4°F | 41.8°F | 0.92 in | 67.4°F | 41.8°F | 0.49 in |
| December | 56.3°F | 37.6°F | 1.82 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 →