Climate twins of Smelterville, ID
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Smelterville'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: Smelterville vs its climate twin
Top match: Summerville, OR
| Month | Smelterville | Summerville | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 37.0°F | 21.7°F | 4.29 in | 40.0°F | 24.0°F | 3.27 in |
| February | 41.5°F | 22.6°F | 3.06 in | 44.6°F | 24.9°F | 2.34 in |
| March | 49.6°F | 27.1°F | 3.66 in | 52.8°F | 28.5°F | 2.25 in |
| April | 57.8°F | 32.3°F | 2.89 in | 59.9°F | 32.4°F | 2.43 in |
| May | 68.6°F | 39.7°F | 2.88 in | 69.2°F | 39.4°F | 2.39 in |
| June | 74.7°F | 46.0°F | 2.73 in | 76.2°F | 43.8°F | 1.84 in |
| July | 84.9°F | 50.5°F | 1.15 in | 86.5°F | 47.1°F | 0.71 in |
| August | 84.3°F | 48.8°F | 0.82 in | 86.8°F | 45.8°F | 0.68 in |
| September | 73.4°F | 41.0°F | 1.32 in | 78.1°F | 39.6°F | 0.96 in |
| October | 58.0°F | 32.5°F | 3.11 in | 63.5°F | 32.3°F | 2.16 in |
| November | 44.1°F | 27.1°F | 4.55 in | 48.2°F | 28.4°F | 3.15 in |
| December | 36.3°F | 21.8°F | 3.45 in | 38.8°F | 23.4°F | 3.77 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 →