Climate twins of Mud Lake, ID

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

Top match: Altamont, UT

Month	Mud Lake			Altamont
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	27.1°F	5.2°F	0.92 in	28.9°F	6.7°F	0.69 in
February	32.2°F	8.8°F	0.69 in	34.8°F	11.5°F	0.62 in
March	45.6°F	20.0°F	0.73 in	47.0°F	20.9°F	0.53 in
April	57.8°F	27.9°F	0.98 in	55.1°F	27.2°F	0.83 in
May	66.6°F	37.1°F	1.20 in	64.2°F	36.2°F	1.08 in
June	74.9°F	42.4°F	1.30 in	75.1°F	44.0°F	0.77 in
July	84.3°F	48.1°F	0.60 in	82.4°F	51.5°F	0.60 in
August	84.5°F	46.2°F	0.80 in	80.1°F	49.9°F	0.96 in
September	74.9°F	37.8°F	0.62 in	71.0°F	41.2°F	1.24 in
October	58.2°F	27.2°F	0.98 in	57.4°F	29.9°F	0.99 in
November	40.8°F	16.9°F	0.57 in	42.6°F	18.4°F	0.51 in
December	28.1°F	6.9°F	0.77 in	29.4°F	8.4°F	0.62 in

Cities that consider Mud Lake their climate twin

These US cities have Mud Lake in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Mud Lake would feel familiar.

Altamont, UT (ranks Mud Lake #3)

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 →