Climate twins of Soledad, CA

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

Top match: West Sacramento, CA

Month Soledad West Sacramento
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 62.6°F 34.0°F 3.46 in 56.0°F 39.2°F 3.66 in
February 63.7°F 35.6°F 3.45 in 61.3°F 41.5°F 3.49 in
March 67.5°F 37.7°F 2.80 in 66.3°F 44.5°F 2.68 in
April 72.3°F 39.4°F 0.96 in 72.1°F 47.0°F 1.26 in
May 80.0°F 43.1°F 0.57 in 80.3°F 52.0°F 0.75 in
June 88.8°F 46.6°F 0.13 in 87.9°F 56.5°F 0.23 in
July 95.9°F 50.4°F 0.04 in 92.6°F 59.2°F 0.00 in
August 95.8°F 50.3°F 0.02 in 91.9°F 58.8°F 0.04 in
September 91.7°F 48.1°F 0.06 in 88.5°F 56.5°F 0.09 in
October 82.5°F 42.7°F 0.73 in 78.8°F 50.3°F 0.85 in
November 70.4°F 36.7°F 1.27 in 65.0°F 42.7°F 1.66 in
December 62.0°F 33.4°F 3.08 in 56.0°F 38.5°F 3.43 in

Cities that consider Soledad their climate twin

These US cities have Soledad in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Soledad 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 →