Climate twins of Salmon, ID
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Salmon'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: Salmon vs its climate twin
Top match: Aberdeen, ID
| Month | Salmon | Aberdeen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 28.2°F | 11.0°F | 0.58 in | 32.2°F | 13.8°F | 0.85 in |
| February | 35.8°F | 16.3°F | 0.37 in | 37.2°F | 17.4°F | 0.64 in |
| March | 49.5°F | 25.5°F | 0.47 in | 48.3°F | 25.6°F | 0.85 in |
| April | 58.7°F | 31.6°F | 0.77 in | 57.9°F | 30.8°F | 0.87 in |
| May | 68.3°F | 39.7°F | 1.29 in | 67.7°F | 39.8°F | 1.17 in |
| June | 75.7°F | 46.2°F | 1.63 in | 76.9°F | 45.8°F | 0.99 in |
| July | 86.3°F | 51.6°F | 0.77 in | 87.1°F | 51.1°F | 0.41 in |
| August | 84.8°F | 48.7°F | 0.60 in | 86.8°F | 48.7°F | 0.42 in |
| September | 74.3°F | 40.6°F | 0.79 in | 76.4°F | 40.4°F | 0.83 in |
| October | 58.4°F | 30.8°F | 0.81 in | 61.2°F | 30.4°F | 0.90 in |
| November | 40.8°F | 21.6°F | 0.67 in | 45.1°F | 21.7°F | 0.66 in |
| December | 28.9°F | 12.9°F | 0.73 in | 33.2°F | 14.5°F | 0.99 in |
Cities that consider Salmon their climate twin
These US cities have Salmon in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Salmon would feel familiar.
- Aberdeen, ID (ranks Salmon #3)
- Burlington, WY (ranks Salmon #1)
- Byron, WY (ranks Salmon #2)
- Cowley, WY (ranks Salmon #2)
- Lovell, WY (ranks Salmon #2)
- Townsend, MT (ranks Salmon #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 →