Climate twins of Scotts Mills, OR

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

Top match: Federal Way, WA

Month Scotts Mills Federal Way
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 46.5°F 35.1°F 6.70 in 48.1°F 37.4°F 6.03 in
February 50.2°F 35.8°F 4.94 in 50.3°F 37.4°F 4.03 in
March 54.7°F 38.3°F 5.45 in 54.7°F 40.1°F 4.38 in
April 59.5°F 41.5°F 4.15 in 59.8°F 43.7°F 3.39 in
May 66.5°F 47.0°F 2.88 in 66.5°F 49.1°F 2.00 in
June 71.7°F 51.3°F 1.84 in 71.1°F 53.4°F 1.42 in
July 79.7°F 55.5°F 0.42 in 76.8°F 57.2°F 0.55 in
August 80.0°F 55.6°F 0.53 in 76.9°F 57.0°F 0.83 in
September 74.3°F 51.7°F 1.66 in 70.7°F 53.0°F 1.57 in
October 62.5°F 44.8°F 4.19 in 60.7°F 46.6°F 4.09 in
November 51.9°F 38.9°F 6.98 in 52.4°F 40.5°F 6.50 in
December 45.5°F 34.7°F 7.46 in 47.3°F 36.9°F 6.02 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 →