Climate twins of Willits, CA

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

Top match: Portola Valley, CA

Month Willits Portola Valley
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 53.7°F 33.3°F 9.17 in 54.7°F 40.9°F 7.77 in
February 56.3°F 34.1°F 8.63 in 55.1°F 40.3°F 7.97 in
March 59.0°F 35.5°F 7.07 in 58.4°F 41.3°F 6.32 in
April 61.8°F 37.3°F 3.44 in 61.6°F 42.6°F 3.37 in
May 68.9°F 40.2°F 1.78 in 66.9°F 47.2°F 1.29 in
June 75.5°F 44.2°F 0.50 in 75.2°F 52.0°F 0.42 in
July 83.5°F 48.0°F 0.04 in 80.6°F 57.7°F 0.04 in
August 83.3°F 45.6°F 0.05 in 80.9°F 58.5°F 0.11 in
September 81.9°F 42.1°F 0.37 in 78.9°F 57.1°F 0.18 in
October 72.4°F 36.9°F 2.57 in 71.0°F 51.7°F 1.73 in
November 59.9°F 35.3°F 5.77 in 60.4°F 44.4°F 4.60 in
December 53.0°F 32.3°F 9.84 in 53.8°F 40.1°F 8.41 in

Cities that consider Willits their climate twin

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