Climate twins of Meridian, ID

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

Top match: Dietrich, ID

Month Meridian Dietrich
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.8°F 25.5°F 1.41 in 37.2°F 23.3°F 1.57 in
February 46.0°F 29.0°F 1.00 in 43.0°F 26.1°F 0.90 in
March 55.5°F 34.9°F 1.33 in 54.5°F 32.7°F 1.14 in
April 62.3°F 39.6°F 1.23 in 63.5°F 38.2°F 0.81 in
May 72.3°F 47.5°F 1.45 in 73.8°F 46.7°F 1.07 in
June 81.4°F 54.1°F 0.75 in 84.0°F 53.5°F 0.56 in
July 92.7°F 61.9°F 0.21 in 94.1°F 61.7°F 0.16 in
August 90.7°F 60.8°F 0.17 in 92.4°F 59.9°F 0.30 in
September 80.0°F 52.6°F 0.43 in 81.4°F 50.9°F 0.46 in
October 64.8°F 41.5°F 0.81 in 65.9°F 40.2°F 0.76 in
November 48.8°F 31.7°F 1.18 in 49.5°F 31.1°F 1.02 in
December 38.8°F 25.4°F 1.54 in 37.7°F 23.8°F 1.72 in

Cities that consider Meridian their climate twin

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