Climate twins of Sacramento, CA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Sacramento'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: Sacramento vs its climate twin
Top match: Santa Clarita, CA
| Month | Sacramento | Santa Clarita | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 56.5°F | 41.1°F | 3.87 in | 63.2°F | 46.6°F | 4.23 in |
| February | 62.2°F | 43.7°F | 3.63 in | 64.7°F | 44.7°F | 4.41 in |
| March | 67.8°F | 46.7°F | 2.82 in | 70.4°F | 47.1°F | 2.90 in |
| April | 73.5°F | 49.3°F | 1.44 in | 74.2°F | 48.7°F | 0.83 in |
| May | 81.3°F | 54.0°F | 0.86 in | 80.8°F | 53.5°F | 0.30 in |
| June | 89.0°F | 58.7°F | 0.21 in | 87.4°F | 56.7°F | 0.02 in |
| July | 94.4°F | 61.4°F | 0.00 in | 94.2°F | 63.2°F | 0.00 in |
| August | 93.5°F | 61.0°F | 0.02 in | 95.8°F | 64.1°F | 0.00 in |
| September | 89.3°F | 58.8°F | 0.15 in | 90.9°F | 62.4°F | 0.11 in |
| October | 78.9°F | 52.9°F | 0.93 in | 81.1°F | 56.3°F | 0.52 in |
| November | 65.3°F | 45.3°F | 1.78 in | 71.3°F | 49.2°F | 0.82 in |
| December | 56.4°F | 40.7°F | 3.49 in | 62.4°F | 44.3°F | 2.62 in |
Cities that consider Sacramento their climate twin
These US cities have Sacramento in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Sacramento would feel familiar.
- Santa Clarita, CA (ranks Sacramento #1)
- Hidden Hills, CA (ranks Sacramento #1)
- Pasadena, CA (ranks Sacramento #1)
- San Marino, CA (ranks Sacramento #1)
- South Pasadena, CA (ranks Sacramento #1)
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 →