Climate twins of Molalla, OR

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

Top match: Federal Way, WA

Month	Molalla			Federal Way
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	47.4°F	35.4°F	5.90 in	48.1°F	37.4°F	6.03 in
February	51.4°F	36.3°F	4.34 in	50.3°F	37.4°F	4.03 in
March	56.0°F	38.5°F	5.16 in	54.7°F	40.1°F	4.38 in
April	60.8°F	42.0°F	4.50 in	59.8°F	43.7°F	3.39 in
May	67.7°F	46.9°F	3.38 in	66.5°F	49.1°F	2.00 in
June	72.2°F	51.1°F	2.14 in	71.1°F	53.4°F	1.42 in
July	80.8°F	55.5°F	0.56 in	76.8°F	57.2°F	0.55 in
August	82.4°F	56.1°F	0.62 in	76.9°F	57.0°F	0.83 in
September	76.5°F	51.6°F	1.95 in	70.7°F	53.0°F	1.57 in
October	63.9°F	45.5°F	4.29 in	60.7°F	46.6°F	4.09 in
November	52.9°F	39.4°F	6.89 in	52.4°F	40.5°F	6.50 in
December	46.2°F	35.0°F	6.69 in	47.3°F	36.9°F	6.02 in

Cities that consider Molalla their climate twin

These US cities have Molalla in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Molalla would feel familiar.

Buckley, WA (ranks Molalla #3)
Enumclaw, WA (ranks Molalla #3)

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 →