Climate twins of Albin, WY

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

Top match: Hot Springs, SD

Month Albin Hot Springs
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 40.5°F 18.0°F 0.63 in 40.4°F 14.1°F 0.41 in
February 41.2°F 18.8°F 0.73 in 43.3°F 15.4°F 0.57 in
March 51.6°F 25.1°F 1.37 in 54.1°F 23.6°F 1.05 in
April 59.5°F 31.0°F 2.11 in 61.6°F 31.2°F 2.12 in
May 68.2°F 40.5°F 2.95 in 70.2°F 41.4°F 3.28 in
June 80.4°F 49.8°F 2.29 in 80.6°F 50.8°F 3.05 in
July 87.0°F 56.3°F 2.46 in 88.5°F 57.4°F 2.41 in
August 85.2°F 54.6°F 2.28 in 87.4°F 55.2°F 2.00 in
September 76.6°F 46.7°F 1.96 in 79.7°F 45.4°F 1.40 in
October 62.2°F 34.5°F 1.41 in 64.7°F 33.3°F 1.40 in
November 48.9°F 24.7°F 0.68 in 50.5°F 22.7°F 0.43 in
December 39.0°F 17.6°F 0.61 in 40.5°F 14.8°F 0.49 in

Cities that consider Albin their climate twin

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