Climate twins of West Sacramento, CA

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

Top match: Soledad, CA

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

Cities that consider West Sacramento their climate twin

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