Climate twins of Akron, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Akron'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.

Rank 1 closest
Fort Laramie, WY
similarity distance: 1.186 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Hemingford, NE
similarity distance: 1.300 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Whitney, NE
similarity distance: 1.301 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Akron vs its climate twin

Top match: Fort Laramie, WY

Month Akron Fort Laramie
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.1°F 17.2°F 0.17 in 43.0°F 15.3°F 0.24 in
February 43.5°F 19.0°F 0.20 in 45.0°F 17.1°F 0.53 in
March 54.1°F 26.8°F 0.71 in 54.8°F 23.5°F 0.80 in
April 60.9°F 33.5°F 1.43 in 61.9°F 30.1°F 1.71 in
May 70.5°F 43.4°F 2.65 in 71.0°F 40.6°F 2.93 in
June 82.5°F 53.8°F 2.24 in 82.8°F 50.0°F 2.19 in
July 88.7°F 60.3°F 2.78 in 91.0°F 56.5°F 1.78 in
August 86.5°F 58.5°F 2.36 in 89.2°F 54.1°F 1.36 in
September 78.3°F 49.9°F 1.24 in 79.8°F 43.8°F 1.39 in
October 63.8°F 36.6°F 0.99 in 65.2°F 31.1°F 1.13 in
November 50.9°F 25.8°F 0.42 in 52.0°F 22.1°F 0.46 in
December 41.1°F 17.5°F 0.20 in 42.6°F 15.4°F 0.42 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 →