Climate twins of Richfield, ID

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

Top match: Elko, NV

Month	Richfield			Elko
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	31.7°F	13.9°F	1.53 in	37.9°F	16.0°F	1.19 in
February	37.2°F	17.7°F	0.91 in	42.8°F	20.5°F	0.89 in
March	48.6°F	25.0°F	1.01 in	53.1°F	26.8°F	0.97 in
April	58.3°F	30.6°F	0.88 in	59.6°F	31.5°F	1.05 in
May	68.4°F	38.9°F	1.09 in	70.0°F	38.5°F	1.22 in
June	78.0°F	45.9°F	0.70 in	81.5°F	44.9°F	0.57 in
July	88.9°F	53.1°F	0.17 in	91.8°F	52.0°F	0.36 in
August	87.9°F	52.1°F	0.29 in	90.0°F	49.2°F	0.33 in
September	77.3°F	43.1°F	0.49 in	80.1°F	40.5°F	0.59 in
October	62.2°F	32.2°F	0.87 in	65.5°F	29.4°F	0.74 in
November	45.2°F	22.9°F	0.92 in	49.9°F	21.9°F	0.88 in
December	32.6°F	15.4°F	1.66 in	38.0°F	15.4°F	1.20 in

Cities that consider Richfield their climate twin

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

Waterville, WA (ranks Richfield #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 →