Climate twins of Yuma, AZ

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

Top match: Palm Springs, CA

Month	Yuma			Palm Springs
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	69.8°F	47.9°F	0.39 in	70.6°F	47.2°F	1.42 in
February	73.4°F	50.4°F	0.38 in	73.3°F	49.2°F	1.11 in
March	80.2°F	55.0°F	0.39 in	80.4°F	53.5°F	0.55 in
April	86.4°F	59.8°F	0.14 in	87.7°F	58.6°F	0.10 in
May	94.3°F	66.9°F	0.06 in	94.3°F	64.8°F	0.01 in
June	103.3°F	75.0°F	0.01 in	103.1°F	71.9°F	0.00 in
July	106.7°F	82.6°F	0.24 in	107.8°F	78.5°F	0.25 in
August	106.4°F	83.2°F	0.20 in	107.5°F	78.8°F	0.18 in
September	101.4°F	77.6°F	0.68 in	102.1°F	73.2°F	0.21 in
October	90.2°F	65.7°F	0.13 in	91.2°F	63.7°F	0.18 in
November	77.7°F	54.4°F	0.23 in	78.4°F	53.7°F	0.28 in
December	67.8°F	46.8°F	0.43 in	68.6°F	45.3°F	0.82 in

Cities that consider Yuma their climate twin

These US cities have Yuma in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Yuma would feel familiar.

Palm Springs, CA (ranks Yuma #2)
Needles, CA (ranks Yuma #1)

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 →