Climate twins of Montclair, CA

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

Top match: Stockton, CA

Month Montclair Stockton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 67.9°F 43.1°F 2.91 in 58.2°F 39.3°F 3.57 in
February 67.3°F 44.5°F 4.15 in 64.5°F 42.2°F 3.13 in
March 72.0°F 47.0°F 2.12 in 70.0°F 45.6°F 2.36 in
April 75.8°F 49.6°F 0.97 in 75.0°F 49.4°F 1.45 in
May 78.4°F 54.0°F 0.22 in 83.1°F 54.2°F 0.57 in
June 84.3°F 57.2°F 0.06 in 90.5°F 58.2°F 0.13 in
July 90.3°F 62.3°F 0.00 in 94.7°F 61.0°F 0.00 in
August 92.4°F 62.7°F 0.03 in 94.9°F 59.8°F 0.02 in
September 88.7°F 60.4°F 0.01 in 91.9°F 57.1°F 0.08 in
October 80.5°F 53.9°F 0.97 in 81.8°F 50.9°F 1.01 in
November 73.5°F 47.0°F 0.74 in 68.8°F 43.7°F 1.82 in
December 66.9°F 41.5°F 2.29 in 58.7°F 39.0°F 3.15 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 →