Climate twins of Pelican, AK

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Pelican'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: Pelican vs its climate twin

Top match: Saxman, AK

Month	Pelican			Saxman
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	35.4°F	27.5°F	15.81 in	39.1°F	32.3°F	17.63 in
February	37.5°F	28.0°F	11.56 in	41.3°F	33.1°F	11.13 in
March	39.9°F	28.9°F	12.12 in	44.9°F	34.8°F	12.64 in
April	47.7°F	33.3°F	8.94 in	51.6°F	38.8°F	9.53 in
May	54.4°F	39.1°F	6.45 in	59.3°F	45.1°F	7.19 in
June	59.5°F	45.3°F	4.91 in	63.7°F	50.3°F	5.86 in
July	60.4°F	49.8°F	7.00 in	66.2°F	54.3°F	6.51 in
August	61.5°F	50.2°F	12.06 in	66.8°F	54.3°F	11.16 in
September	56.8°F	45.5°F	21.67 in	60.0°F	50.4°F	17.68 in
October	48.2°F	38.5°F	25.90 in	51.8°F	43.4°F	19.10 in
November	40.0°F	32.0°F	19.81 in	43.4°F	37.1°F	19.46 in
December	36.1°F	29.6°F	18.33 in	39.5°F	33.4°F	19.38 in

Cities that consider Pelican their climate twin

These US cities have Pelican in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Pelican would feel familiar.

Ketchikan, AK (ranks Pelican #2)
Saxman, AK (ranks Pelican #2)

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 →