Climate twins of Soap Lake, WA

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

Top match: Nyssa, OR

Month	Soap Lake			Nyssa
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	35.6°F	23.5°F	0.91 in	35.4°F	24.2°F	1.38 in
February	43.2°F	26.7°F	0.64 in	44.2°F	27.4°F	0.79 in
March	54.0°F	31.9°F	0.70 in	54.9°F	33.7°F	0.92 in
April	63.1°F	38.5°F	0.58 in	62.7°F	38.6°F	0.99 in
May	73.3°F	47.6°F	0.75 in	71.9°F	47.9°F	1.15 in
June	80.0°F	54.4°F	0.65 in	80.5°F	54.5°F	0.72 in
July	89.3°F	61.3°F	0.30 in	90.9°F	62.3°F	0.25 in
August	87.9°F	59.4°F	0.18 in	89.2°F	59.1°F	0.16 in
September	78.5°F	50.6°F	0.22 in	78.7°F	49.4°F	0.54 in
October	62.4°F	39.3°F	0.66 in	64.2°F	37.7°F	0.81 in
November	45.7°F	29.5°F	0.86 in	46.6°F	29.5°F	1.02 in
December	35.5°F	23.6°F	1.13 in	36.3°F	24.1°F	1.42 in

Cities that consider Soap Lake their climate twin

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

Nyssa, OR (ranks Soap Lake #2)
Hinckley, UT (ranks Soap Lake #1)
Delta, UT (ranks Soap Lake #2)

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 →