Climate twins of Paris, ID

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Paris'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
Yampa, CO
similarity distance: 1.338 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Oak Creek, CO
similarity distance: 1.338 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Fairfield, ID
similarity distance: 1.343 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Paris vs its climate twin

Top match: Yampa, CO

Month Paris Yampa
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 28.7°F 6.7°F 1.73 in 31.6°F 7.2°F 1.37 in
February 32.0°F 8.6°F 1.60 in 34.5°F 8.5°F 1.29 in
March 42.1°F 18.3°F 1.48 in 43.2°F 16.9°F 1.32 in
April 53.3°F 27.0°F 1.74 in 52.0°F 24.2°F 1.82 in
May 64.2°F 34.4°F 2.29 in 62.2°F 32.5°F 1.62 in
June 74.5°F 40.3°F 1.28 in 73.5°F 39.9°F 1.11 in
July 84.6°F 46.2°F 0.67 in 79.4°F 46.5°F 1.62 in
August 83.9°F 44.6°F 0.96 in 77.5°F 45.0°F 1.59 in
September 73.5°F 36.5°F 1.35 in 70.4°F 37.1°F 1.48 in
October 58.6°F 27.0°F 1.70 in 57.2°F 26.7°F 1.26 in
November 42.7°F 18.5°F 1.38 in 42.3°F 17.0°F 1.19 in
December 30.4°F 9.4°F 1.71 in 31.7°F 8.4°F 1.27 in

Cities that consider Paris their climate twin

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