Climate twins of Sweet Home, OR

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

Top match: Mossyrock, WA

Month Sweet Home Mossyrock
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 47.5°F 34.3°F 7.15 in 45.0°F 33.1°F 8.06 in
February 51.2°F 34.5°F 5.56 in 49.2°F 33.5°F 5.78 in
March 55.5°F 36.9°F 6.26 in 54.1°F 35.2°F 6.31 in
April 60.3°F 39.6°F 5.37 in 60.0°F 38.7°F 5.45 in
May 67.0°F 43.9°F 3.80 in 69.1°F 43.2°F 3.81 in
June 72.9°F 47.9°F 2.46 in 72.3°F 47.8°F 2.69 in
July 81.7°F 51.0°F 0.54 in 81.1°F 51.4°F 0.91 in
August 82.6°F 50.3°F 0.64 in 80.9°F 51.9°F 1.30 in
September 76.4°F 46.8°F 1.99 in 74.3°F 48.1°F 2.46 in
October 64.1°F 41.9°F 4.64 in 61.7°F 42.7°F 5.39 in
November 52.9°F 37.6°F 7.64 in 51.0°F 37.5°F 8.44 in
December 46.5°F 34.3°F 8.40 in 44.4°F 33.5°F 8.13 in

Cities that consider Sweet Home their climate twin

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