Climate twins of Monroe, OR

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

Top match: Chehalis, WA

Month Monroe Chehalis
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 47.2°F 34.4°F 6.24 in 46.1°F 34.2°F 5.85 in
February 50.5°F 34.7°F 5.18 in 49.5°F 33.9°F 4.24 in
March 55.4°F 37.0°F 4.58 in 54.1°F 35.9°F 4.39 in
April 59.7°F 39.3°F 3.30 in 59.5°F 39.1°F 3.24 in
May 66.7°F 43.4°F 2.09 in 66.6°F 44.4°F 2.44 in
June 73.2°F 47.3°F 1.00 in 71.1°F 49.1°F 1.53 in
July 81.8°F 50.9°F 0.27 in 77.5°F 52.9°F 0.50 in
August 82.1°F 50.7°F 0.29 in 78.2°F 52.8°F 0.84 in
September 76.7°F 47.4°F 1.29 in 72.6°F 48.4°F 1.59 in
October 64.3°F 41.7°F 3.13 in 61.1°F 42.7°F 4.00 in
November 52.1°F 37.3°F 6.12 in 50.7°F 37.1°F 6.53 in
December 45.7°F 34.2°F 7.98 in 45.0°F 33.9°F 6.44 in

Cities that consider Monroe their climate twin

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