Climate twins of Moro, OR

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Moro'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.

Rank 1 closest
Alturas, CA
similarity distance: 0.651 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Ritzville, WA
similarity distance: 0.719 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Odessa, WA
similarity distance: 0.732 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Moro vs its climate twin

Top match: Alturas, CA

Month Moro Alturas
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 40.1°F 24.5°F 1.47 in 44.1°F 21.3°F 1.49 in
February 44.9°F 26.2°F 1.06 in 47.3°F 23.1°F 0.98 in
March 52.3°F 30.1°F 0.97 in 53.2°F 27.2°F 1.22 in
April 58.8°F 34.5°F 0.96 in 59.2°F 30.9°F 1.21 in
May 67.4°F 41.6°F 0.96 in 69.6°F 37.4°F 1.39 in
June 74.3°F 47.0°F 0.57 in 79.1°F 42.2°F 0.71 in
July 84.0°F 53.0°F 0.18 in 89.7°F 46.3°F 0.23 in
August 83.8°F 52.6°F 0.20 in 88.2°F 44.4°F 0.30 in
September 75.8°F 45.4°F 0.43 in 81.0°F 38.1°F 0.37 in
October 62.2°F 36.2°F 1.06 in 67.0°F 30.7°F 0.94 in
November 48.4°F 28.7°F 1.54 in 51.8°F 25.1°F 1.39 in
December 39.5°F 24.2°F 1.61 in 41.5°F 22.5°F 1.51 in

Cities that consider Moro their climate twin

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