Climate twins of Mossyrock, WA

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

Top match: Sweet Home, OR

Month Mossyrock Sweet Home
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.0°F 33.1°F 8.06 in 47.5°F 34.3°F 7.15 in
February 49.2°F 33.5°F 5.78 in 51.2°F 34.5°F 5.56 in
March 54.1°F 35.2°F 6.31 in 55.5°F 36.9°F 6.26 in
April 60.0°F 38.7°F 5.45 in 60.3°F 39.6°F 5.37 in
May 69.1°F 43.2°F 3.81 in 67.0°F 43.9°F 3.80 in
June 72.3°F 47.8°F 2.69 in 72.9°F 47.9°F 2.46 in
July 81.1°F 51.4°F 0.91 in 81.7°F 51.0°F 0.54 in
August 80.9°F 51.9°F 1.30 in 82.6°F 50.3°F 0.64 in
September 74.3°F 48.1°F 2.46 in 76.4°F 46.8°F 1.99 in
October 61.7°F 42.7°F 5.39 in 64.1°F 41.9°F 4.64 in
November 51.0°F 37.5°F 8.44 in 52.9°F 37.6°F 7.64 in
December 44.4°F 33.5°F 8.13 in 46.5°F 34.3°F 8.40 in

Cities that consider Mossyrock their climate twin

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