Climate twins of Basin, WY

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Basin'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
Myton, UT
similarity distance: 0.920 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Naples, UT
similarity distance: 1.119 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Delta, UT
similarity distance: 1.243 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Basin vs its climate twin

Top match: Myton, UT

Month Basin Myton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.4°F 8.8°F 0.24 in 31.1°F 6.6°F 0.35 in
February 39.1°F 14.6°F 0.32 in 39.9°F 14.1°F 0.41 in
March 54.1°F 27.4°F 0.31 in 55.2°F 25.5°F 0.32 in
April 63.0°F 36.5°F 0.75 in 64.7°F 33.0°F 0.61 in
May 72.8°F 46.8°F 1.37 in 73.7°F 42.0°F 0.95 in
June 83.7°F 54.7°F 1.04 in 85.1°F 49.8°F 0.53 in
July 92.7°F 60.3°F 0.41 in 91.3°F 56.8°F 0.37 in
August 91.0°F 57.2°F 0.32 in 88.4°F 55.2°F 0.60 in
September 79.3°F 47.5°F 0.95 in 79.6°F 45.8°F 1.10 in
October 62.9°F 35.5°F 0.79 in 65.3°F 34.0°F 0.83 in
November 46.4°F 22.8°F 0.36 in 49.5°F 21.3°F 0.42 in
December 33.8°F 11.4°F 0.30 in 34.4°F 10.5°F 0.46 in

Cities that consider Basin their climate twin

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