Climate twins of Santa Clara, UT

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Santa Clara'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
Ridgecrest, CA
similarity distance: 1.435 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Barstow, CA
similarity distance: 1.572 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
California City, CA
similarity distance: 1.598 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Santa Clara vs its climate twin

Top match: Ridgecrest, CA

Month Santa Clara Ridgecrest
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.0°F 28.4°F 1.22 in 60.1°F 30.8°F 0.94 in
February 59.3°F 32.4°F 1.38 in 64.6°F 35.4°F 1.11 in
March 67.8°F 39.0°F 1.02 in 71.9°F 41.8°F 0.55 in
April 75.0°F 45.7°F 0.66 in 78.7°F 47.4°F 0.24 in
May 85.4°F 55.5°F 0.33 in 88.2°F 55.5°F 0.10 in
June 96.4°F 64.5°F 0.16 in 98.5°F 63.7°F 0.07 in
July 101.9°F 71.7°F 0.50 in 104.6°F 70.4°F 0.12 in
August 99.9°F 70.3°F 1.07 in 103.3°F 68.6°F 0.11 in
September 92.4°F 60.7°F 0.67 in 95.2°F 60.5°F 0.24 in
October 78.8°F 47.3°F 0.77 in 82.7°F 48.5°F 0.27 in
November 63.8°F 34.7°F 0.67 in 69.4°F 36.8°F 0.38 in
December 53.0°F 27.9°F 0.86 in 59.5°F 30.3°F 0.54 in

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 →