Climate twins of Stockton, CA

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

Top match: Loma Linda, CA

Month Stockton Loma Linda
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 58.2°F 39.3°F 3.57 in 66.6°F 41.1°F 2.76 in
February 64.5°F 42.2°F 3.13 in 67.4°F 42.3°F 2.99 in
March 70.0°F 45.6°F 2.36 in 70.9°F 44.6°F 2.01 in
April 75.0°F 49.4°F 1.45 in 75.6°F 47.7°F 0.91 in
May 83.1°F 54.2°F 0.57 in 80.3°F 52.4°F 0.35 in
June 90.5°F 58.2°F 0.13 in 88.5°F 56.4°F 0.10 in
July 94.7°F 61.0°F 0.00 in 95.4°F 62.5°F 0.10 in
August 94.9°F 59.8°F 0.02 in 96.2°F 62.9°F 0.09 in
September 91.9°F 57.1°F 0.08 in 92.3°F 59.6°F 0.13 in
October 81.8°F 50.9°F 1.01 in 82.9°F 52.9°F 0.53 in
November 68.8°F 43.7°F 1.82 in 75.0°F 45.3°F 0.89 in
December 58.7°F 39.0°F 3.15 in 66.5°F 40.1°F 2.01 in

Cities that consider Stockton their climate twin

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