Climate twins of Waitsburg, WA

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

Top match: Garden City, ID

Month Waitsburg Garden City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.5°F 26.4°F 2.08 in 36.9°F 23.5°F 2.31 in
February 46.2°F 28.2°F 1.72 in 42.5°F 26.8°F 1.58 in
March 53.9°F 33.0°F 2.24 in 51.4°F 32.4°F 2.11 in
April 61.1°F 37.8°F 1.86 in 57.7°F 35.9°F 1.92 in
May 69.9°F 44.5°F 1.80 in 67.5°F 42.6°F 2.14 in
June 76.8°F 49.9°F 1.24 in 76.5°F 48.6°F 1.15 in
July 87.6°F 54.9°F 0.39 in 87.6°F 57.8°F 0.27 in
August 86.7°F 54.2°F 0.45 in 86.3°F 57.7°F 0.18 in
September 77.2°F 47.2°F 0.73 in 76.0°F 50.1°F 0.57 in
October 62.9°F 38.0°F 1.54 in 61.3°F 39.7°F 1.20 in
November 49.3°F 31.0°F 2.43 in 46.1°F 29.9°F 1.97 in
December 40.7°F 26.5°F 2.31 in 36.9°F 23.2°F 2.63 in

Cities that consider Waitsburg their climate twin

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