Climate twins of Omak, WA

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Omak'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
Vale, OR
similarity distance: 0.620 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Wendell, ID
similarity distance: 0.706 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Jerome, ID
similarity distance: 0.706 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Omak vs its climate twin

Top match: Vale, OR

Month Omak Vale
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.8°F 23.3°F 1.33 in 35.4°F 21.2°F 1.18 in
February 39.8°F 25.2°F 0.91 in 44.1°F 24.4°F 0.94 in
March 52.5°F 31.1°F 1.06 in 55.5°F 29.6°F 0.96 in
April 62.8°F 36.8°F 0.83 in 62.8°F 34.5°F 0.91 in
May 72.4°F 45.1°F 1.19 in 73.5°F 43.8°F 1.29 in
June 79.1°F 51.1°F 0.98 in 81.6°F 49.1°F 0.78 in
July 89.4°F 58.1°F 0.52 in 92.7°F 57.0°F 0.43 in
August 88.8°F 56.8°F 0.27 in 91.0°F 53.2°F 0.18 in
September 78.2°F 48.4°F 0.40 in 80.3°F 44.2°F 0.40 in
October 60.7°F 37.5°F 0.92 in 63.7°F 33.2°F 0.67 in
November 43.0°F 28.9°F 1.24 in 46.6°F 24.6°F 0.96 in
December 32.5°F 23.3°F 1.95 in 36.8°F 19.1°F 1.31 in

Cities that consider Omak their climate twin

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