Climate twins of Monroe, WA

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: Battle Ground, WA

Month Monroe Battle Ground
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.0°F 32.1°F 6.54 in 46.1°F 31.9°F 7.20 in
February 47.6°F 32.1°F 4.47 in 50.4°F 31.7°F 5.32 in
March 52.0°F 34.8°F 5.22 in 54.7°F 34.6°F 5.59 in
April 57.4°F 38.6°F 4.30 in 59.7°F 37.9°F 4.54 in
May 63.9°F 44.0°F 3.42 in 66.5°F 43.3°F 3.36 in
June 68.0°F 48.6°F 2.69 in 71.1°F 47.3°F 2.31 in
July 74.2°F 51.8°F 1.15 in 78.6°F 50.6°F 0.63 in
August 74.7°F 51.5°F 1.30 in 79.6°F 50.2°F 0.80 in
September 68.7°F 47.6°F 2.73 in 74.5°F 45.6°F 2.20 in
October 57.7°F 41.2°F 5.03 in 62.5°F 39.9°F 4.82 in
November 48.5°F 35.3°F 7.16 in 51.6°F 35.4°F 7.61 in
December 42.7°F 31.5°F 6.76 in 45.1°F 31.9°F 7.99 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 →