Climate twins of Orland, CA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Orland'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: Orland vs its climate twin
Top match: Ripon, CA
| Month | Orland | Ripon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 56.8°F | 37.7°F | 4.50 in | 57.0°F | 39.1°F | 2.67 in |
| February | 61.8°F | 40.1°F | 4.11 in | 62.9°F | 41.3°F | 2.50 in |
| March | 66.9°F | 43.0°F | 2.79 in | 68.5°F | 44.2°F | 1.91 in |
| April | 73.1°F | 46.6°F | 1.37 in | 74.5°F | 47.4°F | 1.11 in |
| May | 81.1°F | 53.3°F | 1.13 in | 82.8°F | 52.6°F | 0.57 in |
| June | 88.8°F | 60.2°F | 0.38 in | 90.4°F | 57.6°F | 0.10 in |
| July | 94.1°F | 63.4°F | 0.02 in | 95.4°F | 60.9°F | 0.00 in |
| August | 93.1°F | 61.0°F | 0.08 in | 94.4°F | 60.3°F | 0.01 in |
| September | 90.0°F | 57.7°F | 0.24 in | 90.4°F | 57.5°F | 0.08 in |
| October | 79.5°F | 50.7°F | 0.91 in | 80.3°F | 50.6°F | 0.69 in |
| November | 65.3°F | 42.5°F | 2.04 in | 66.6°F | 42.8°F | 1.40 in |
| December | 56.5°F | 37.3°F | 3.82 in | 57.1°F | 38.4°F | 2.41 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 →