Climate twins of Winters, CA

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

Top match: South Pasadena, CA

Month Winters South Pasadena
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 56.5°F 37.5°F 5.15 in 68.1°F 45.5°F 4.51 in
February 62.0°F 40.5°F 5.04 in 69.3°F 46.1°F 5.16 in
March 67.9°F 44.1°F 3.21 in 72.6°F 48.4°F 3.03 in
April 74.2°F 47.5°F 1.38 in 76.2°F 50.6°F 1.11 in
May 82.5°F 52.9°F 0.80 in 78.3°F 53.9°F 0.48 in
June 90.1°F 57.9°F 0.15 in 83.7°F 57.8°F 0.21 in
July 95.3°F 59.5°F 0.01 in 89.1°F 62.0°F 0.06 in
August 94.5°F 58.8°F 0.02 in 91.3°F 63.2°F 0.03 in
September 90.9°F 56.6°F 0.09 in 89.9°F 61.6°F 0.22 in
October 80.5°F 50.2°F 0.87 in 83.0°F 56.3°F 0.84 in
November 66.4°F 42.2°F 2.19 in 74.7°F 49.6°F 1.10 in
December 56.8°F 37.3°F 4.86 in 67.2°F 44.7°F 3.33 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 →