Climate twins of Palm Springs, CA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Palm Springs'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: Palm Springs vs its climate twin
Top match: Parker, AZ
| Month | Palm Springs | Parker | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 70.6°F | 47.2°F | 1.42 in | 68.7°F | 41.5°F | 0.85 in |
| February | 73.3°F | 49.2°F | 1.11 in | 72.7°F | 45.0°F | 0.73 in |
| March | 80.4°F | 53.5°F | 0.55 in | 79.9°F | 49.9°F | 0.55 in |
| April | 87.7°F | 58.6°F | 0.10 in | 86.5°F | 56.4°F | 0.16 in |
| May | 94.3°F | 64.8°F | 0.01 in | 95.5°F | 64.4°F | 0.07 in |
| June | 103.1°F | 71.9°F | 0.00 in | 105.3°F | 73.7°F | 0.03 in |
| July | 107.8°F | 78.5°F | 0.25 in | 108.4°F | 80.7°F | 0.18 in |
| August | 107.5°F | 78.8°F | 0.18 in | 107.6°F | 81.2°F | 0.43 in |
| September | 102.1°F | 73.2°F | 0.21 in | 103.1°F | 73.8°F | 0.41 in |
| October | 91.2°F | 63.7°F | 0.18 in | 90.3°F | 60.9°F | 0.42 in |
| November | 78.4°F | 53.7°F | 0.28 in | 77.6°F | 49.2°F | 0.23 in |
| December | 68.6°F | 45.3°F | 0.82 in | 66.7°F | 40.4°F | 0.51 in |
Cities that consider Palm Springs their climate twin
These US cities have Palm Springs in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Palm Springs would feel familiar.
- Yuma, AZ (ranks Palm Springs #1)
- Buckeye, AZ (ranks Palm Springs #1)
- Litchfield Park, AZ (ranks Palm Springs #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 →