Climate twins of Branson, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Branson'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
Hugo, CO
similarity distance: 1.249 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Calhan, CO
similarity distance: 1.359 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Genoa, CO
similarity distance: 1.421 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Branson vs its climate twin

Top match: Hugo, CO

Month Branson Hugo
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 46.1°F 14.9°F 0.51 in 45.7°F 12.3°F 0.16 in
February 48.8°F 18.0°F 0.50 in 47.0°F 14.5°F 0.33 in
March 56.7°F 24.3°F 0.98 in 56.4°F 22.2°F 0.65 in
April 64.1°F 31.2°F 0.96 in 63.6°F 29.1°F 1.24 in
May 73.6°F 39.5°F 1.46 in 72.6°F 40.3°F 2.02 in
June 82.6°F 49.1°F 2.31 in 83.1°F 50.4°F 2.52 in
July 85.6°F 54.0°F 3.60 in 89.1°F 56.1°F 3.14 in
August 82.8°F 52.6°F 2.87 in 86.8°F 54.3°F 2.61 in
September 77.4°F 46.0°F 1.93 in 79.7°F 45.0°F 1.08 in
October 66.9°F 33.2°F 1.10 in 66.8°F 31.5°F 1.02 in
November 54.5°F 22.3°F 0.62 in 54.0°F 21.0°F 0.26 in
December 45.9°F 14.4°F 0.76 in 45.0°F 13.3°F 0.32 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 →