Climate twins of Alpine, WY
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Alpine'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: Alpine vs its climate twin
Top match: Vail, CO
| Month | Alpine | Vail | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 28.3°F | 6.4°F | 2.52 in | 28.5°F | 6.6°F | 1.98 in |
| February | 32.8°F | 7.5°F | 2.54 in | 33.0°F | 9.2°F | 2.01 in |
| March | 41.7°F | 15.6°F | 2.25 in | 41.7°F | 16.7°F | 1.76 in |
| April | 49.5°F | 23.4°F | 2.28 in | 49.4°F | 23.8°F | 2.41 in |
| May | 60.6°F | 32.4°F | 3.08 in | 60.4°F | 31.0°F | 2.00 in |
| June | 70.5°F | 37.1°F | 2.22 in | 71.4°F | 35.6°F | 1.24 in |
| July | 80.3°F | 42.8°F | 1.09 in | 76.7°F | 41.6°F | 1.77 in |
| August | 79.3°F | 41.3°F | 1.26 in | 74.0°F | 40.8°F | 1.75 in |
| September | 70.3°F | 34.4°F | 1.70 in | 66.6°F | 34.0°F | 1.96 in |
| October | 55.8°F | 25.9°F | 2.10 in | 54.1°F | 25.2°F | 1.83 in |
| November | 40.0°F | 16.1°F | 2.13 in | 37.7°F | 15.1°F | 2.00 in |
| December | 28.3°F | 6.7°F | 2.10 in | 28.0°F | 7.1°F | 1.73 in |
Cities that consider Alpine their climate twin
These US cities have Alpine in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Alpine would feel familiar.
- Vail, CO (ranks Alpine #3)
- Aspen, CO (ranks Alpine #3)
- Scofield, UT (ranks Alpine #3)
- Browning, MT (ranks Alpine #3)
- McCall, ID (ranks Alpine #3)
- New Meadows, ID (ranks Alpine #3)
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 →