Climate twins of Williams, AZ

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

Top match: Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ

Month Williams Pinetop-Lakeside
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 47.2°F 21.4°F 2.17 in 45.3°F 19.7°F 2.31 in
February 49.2°F 22.7°F 2.61 in 48.3°F 21.6°F 2.22 in
March 55.6°F 26.8°F 2.00 in 54.8°F 26.5°F 1.97 in
April 62.3°F 31.3°F 0.87 in 62.1°F 31.9°F 0.90 in
May 71.2°F 39.1°F 0.76 in 71.3°F 38.2°F 0.79 in
June 81.8°F 47.9°F 0.38 in 82.0°F 46.3°F 0.58 in
July 84.1°F 53.6°F 2.98 in 82.2°F 52.3°F 3.38 in
August 81.5°F 52.3°F 3.38 in 79.9°F 51.5°F 3.98 in
September 76.4°F 46.6°F 1.59 in 75.8°F 45.7°F 2.03 in
October 66.7°F 36.0°F 1.59 in 66.4°F 34.5°F 1.72 in
November 55.7°F 27.6°F 1.34 in 54.8°F 26.7°F 1.68 in
December 47.0°F 20.8°F 1.94 in 45.3°F 18.7°F 2.52 in

Cities that consider Williams their climate twin

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