Climate twins of Yacolt, WA

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

Top match: Cottage Grove, OR

Month Yacolt Cottage Grove
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 46.1°F 31.9°F 7.20 in 48.1°F 33.4°F 6.57 in
February 50.4°F 31.7°F 5.32 in 51.7°F 33.8°F 4.86 in
March 54.7°F 34.6°F 5.59 in 56.3°F 35.3°F 5.24 in
April 59.7°F 37.9°F 4.54 in 61.1°F 38.3°F 4.46 in
May 66.5°F 43.3°F 3.36 in 67.8°F 43.5°F 3.11 in
June 71.1°F 47.3°F 2.31 in 73.2°F 47.8°F 1.67 in
July 78.6°F 50.6°F 0.63 in 82.0°F 51.1°F 0.40 in
August 79.6°F 50.2°F 0.80 in 82.6°F 50.4°F 0.53 in
September 74.5°F 45.6°F 2.20 in 76.5°F 46.1°F 1.54 in
October 62.5°F 39.9°F 4.82 in 64.1°F 41.0°F 3.75 in
November 51.6°F 35.4°F 7.61 in 53.0°F 37.1°F 6.77 in
December 45.1°F 31.9°F 7.99 in 46.7°F 33.3°F 7.57 in

Cities that consider Yacolt their climate twin

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