Climate twins of Montesano, WA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Montesano'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: Montesano vs its climate twin
Top match: Philomath, OR
| Month | Montesano | Philomath | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 48.6°F | 34.6°F | 11.13 in | 47.1°F | 27.8°F | 11.25 in |
| February | 51.9°F | 33.9°F | 7.04 in | 51.1°F | 28.3°F | 8.38 in |
| March | 56.4°F | 36.2°F | 8.16 in | 56.2°F | 30.5°F | 8.11 in |
| April | 61.8°F | 39.1°F | 5.36 in | 61.4°F | 33.0°F | 5.43 in |
| May | 68.3°F | 44.3°F | 3.29 in | 68.9°F | 38.6°F | 2.80 in |
| June | 72.4°F | 48.3°F | 2.18 in | 73.9°F | 42.6°F | 1.49 in |
| July | 78.4°F | 51.7°F | 0.79 in | 82.4°F | 45.7°F | 0.32 in |
| August | 79.5°F | 51.6°F | 1.43 in | 83.0°F | 45.7°F | 0.42 in |
| September | 75.1°F | 47.7°F | 2.67 in | 77.4°F | 42.3°F | 1.75 in |
| October | 63.7°F | 41.4°F | 7.23 in | 65.0°F | 36.3°F | 4.99 in |
| November | 53.0°F | 36.5°F | 11.39 in | 52.7°F | 30.7°F | 10.39 in |
| December | 47.4°F | 33.8°F | 11.37 in | 46.1°F | 28.3°F | 13.42 in |
Cities that consider Montesano their climate twin
These US cities have Montesano in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Montesano would feel familiar.
- Philomath, OR (ranks Montesano #1)
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 →