Climate twins of Solana Beach, CA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Solana Beach'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: Solana Beach vs its climate twin
Top match: Santa Clara, CA
| Month | Solana Beach | Santa Clara | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 65.0°F | 47.8°F | 2.49 in | 59.8°F | 41.8°F | 2.80 in |
| February | 64.0°F | 48.5°F | 2.64 in | 62.4°F | 43.9°F | 2.69 in |
| March | 64.5°F | 50.8°F | 1.61 in | 65.9°F | 46.3°F | 2.08 in |
| April | 66.3°F | 53.3°F | 0.88 in | 69.2°F | 48.4°F | 1.07 in |
| May | 67.6°F | 57.4°F | 0.28 in | 73.8°F | 52.1°F | 0.39 in |
| June | 69.9°F | 60.3°F | 0.06 in | 79.1°F | 55.5°F | 0.18 in |
| July | 74.2°F | 64.1°F | 0.08 in | 80.8°F | 58.1°F | 0.00 in |
| August | 75.8°F | 65.3°F | 0.03 in | 81.4°F | 58.6°F | 0.05 in |
| September | 75.7°F | 63.6°F | 0.11 in | 80.7°F | 57.2°F | 0.07 in |
| October | 73.3°F | 58.9°F | 0.50 in | 75.8°F | 52.7°F | 0.53 in |
| November | 69.5°F | 52.1°F | 0.99 in | 66.1°F | 45.7°F | 1.33 in |
| December | 64.6°F | 47.3°F | 1.72 in | 59.5°F | 41.7°F | 2.29 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 →