Climate twins of Shoshone, ID

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

Top match: Payette, ID

Month Shoshone Payette
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.2°F 23.3°F 1.57 in 39.1°F 24.0°F 1.42 in
February 43.0°F 26.1°F 0.90 in 47.8°F 27.6°F 1.07 in
March 54.5°F 32.7°F 1.14 in 58.1°F 34.0°F 0.97 in
April 63.5°F 38.2°F 0.81 in 65.1°F 39.1°F 0.82 in
May 73.8°F 46.7°F 1.07 in 73.9°F 47.7°F 1.29 in
June 84.0°F 53.5°F 0.56 in 81.1°F 54.3°F 0.82 in
July 94.1°F 61.7°F 0.16 in 91.8°F 61.1°F 0.36 in
August 92.4°F 59.9°F 0.30 in 90.3°F 58.8°F 0.24 in
September 81.4°F 50.9°F 0.46 in 80.3°F 50.1°F 0.85 in
October 65.9°F 40.2°F 0.76 in 67.1°F 39.0°F 0.63 in
November 49.5°F 31.1°F 1.02 in 51.5°F 30.3°F 1.03 in
December 37.7°F 23.8°F 1.72 in 40.0°F 24.4°F 1.75 in

Cities that consider Shoshone their climate twin

These US cities have Shoshone in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Shoshone would feel familiar.

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 →