Climate twins of Scottsdale, AZ

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Scottsdale'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
Twentynine Palms, CA
similarity distance: 1.900 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Parlier, CA
similarity distance: 2.061 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Fowler, CA
similarity distance: 2.061 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Scottsdale vs its climate twin

Top match: Twentynine Palms, CA

Month Scottsdale Twentynine Palms
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 63.5°F 43.0°F 1.47 in 63.3°F 41.8°F 0.50 in
February 65.9°F 44.7°F 1.67 in 67.2°F 44.1°F 0.56 in
March 71.5°F 48.6°F 1.48 in 74.1°F 49.3°F 0.35 in
April 78.5°F 53.7°F 0.47 in 81.1°F 54.5°F 0.12 in
May 86.6°F 61.6°F 0.27 in 89.9°F 62.9°F 0.05 in
June 96.3°F 71.3°F 0.07 in 99.4°F 70.7°F 0.00 in
July 99.4°F 75.9°F 1.00 in 104.0°F 77.4°F 0.40 in
August 98.1°F 74.9°F 1.25 in 102.7°F 76.4°F 0.65 in
September 93.7°F 70.7°F 0.83 in 96.5°F 69.3°F 0.34 in
October 83.1°F 60.6°F 0.95 in 84.7°F 57.8°F 0.15 in
November 72.1°F 50.4°F 0.76 in 71.6°F 47.0°F 0.19 in
December 63.2°F 42.0°F 1.39 in 62.0°F 39.9°F 0.56 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 →