Climate twins of Thousand Oaks, CA

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

Top match: Santa Clara, CA

Month Thousand Oaks Santa Clara
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 68.0°F 45.0°F 2.85 in 59.8°F 41.8°F 2.80 in
February 67.6°F 45.6°F 2.90 in 62.4°F 43.9°F 2.69 in
March 68.5°F 47.4°F 2.00 in 65.9°F 46.3°F 2.08 in
April 71.0°F 49.2°F 0.64 in 69.2°F 48.4°F 1.07 in
May 71.9°F 52.7°F 0.33 in 73.8°F 52.1°F 0.39 in
June 74.7°F 57.0°F 0.13 in 79.1°F 55.5°F 0.18 in
July 78.0°F 60.3°F 0.02 in 80.8°F 58.1°F 0.00 in
August 79.5°F 60.9°F 0.00 in 81.4°F 58.6°F 0.05 in
September 79.6°F 59.4°F 0.06 in 80.7°F 57.2°F 0.07 in
October 76.4°F 53.9°F 0.50 in 75.8°F 52.7°F 0.53 in
November 72.8°F 48.6°F 0.87 in 66.1°F 45.7°F 1.33 in
December 67.7°F 43.8°F 1.71 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 →