Climate twins of New Meadows, ID

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches New Meadows'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
Athol, ID
similarity distance: 1.571 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Deer Park, WA
similarity distance: 1.852 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Alpine, WY
similarity distance: 1.939 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: New Meadows vs its climate twin

Top match: Athol, ID

Month New Meadows Athol
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.0°F 9.4°F 2.85 in 34.7°F 22.6°F 2.38 in
February 36.2°F 12.1°F 2.00 in 38.0°F 23.3°F 1.83 in
March 45.1°F 20.8°F 2.51 in 45.3°F 27.7°F 2.50 in
April 54.6°F 27.2°F 2.01 in 54.1°F 32.8°F 2.06 in
May 63.8°F 33.4°F 2.35 in 64.0°F 39.1°F 2.33 in
June 72.2°F 39.1°F 2.08 in 70.5°F 45.2°F 1.93 in
July 84.8°F 43.3°F 0.70 in 80.2°F 49.7°F 0.91 in
August 84.6°F 40.7°F 0.56 in 79.5°F 49.0°F 0.92 in
September 74.7°F 32.9°F 1.01 in 68.9°F 42.2°F 0.99 in
October 58.9°F 25.2°F 1.83 in 54.1°F 33.2°F 2.16 in
November 41.9°F 19.3°F 2.55 in 41.6°F 27.4°F 3.06 in
December 30.7°F 12.6°F 4.05 in 34.4°F 22.3°F 3.58 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 →