Climate twins of Blanca, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Blanca'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
Lyman, UT
similarity distance: 0.822 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Loa, UT
similarity distance: 0.822 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Bicknell, UT
similarity distance: 0.822 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Blanca vs its climate twin

Top match: Lyman, UT

Month Blanca Lyman
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 36.5°F 3.8°F 0.37 in 39.6°F 9.5°F 0.39 in
February 41.7°F 10.1°F 0.39 in 42.6°F 13.7°F 0.45 in
March 51.6°F 20.3°F 0.69 in 51.2°F 20.4°F 0.51 in
April 59.3°F 26.4°F 0.54 in 58.0°F 26.2°F 0.50 in
May 68.4°F 35.2°F 1.09 in 67.3°F 34.8°F 0.75 in
June 78.3°F 44.3°F 0.69 in 78.3°F 42.7°F 0.57 in
July 82.7°F 48.6°F 1.68 in 83.5°F 50.2°F 1.34 in
August 80.1°F 47.2°F 1.69 in 81.3°F 48.2°F 1.37 in
September 74.5°F 39.3°F 1.14 in 74.7°F 38.8°F 0.98 in
October 62.6°F 27.9°F 0.75 in 62.7°F 27.2°F 0.84 in
November 49.1°F 14.8°F 0.54 in 50.3°F 17.6°F 0.29 in
December 36.0°F 5.2°F 0.21 in 39.7°F 9.3°F 0.42 in

Cities that consider Blanca their climate twin

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