Climate twins of Buffalo, WY
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Buffalo'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: Buffalo vs its climate twin
Top match: Joliet, MT
| Month | Buffalo | Joliet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 36.0°F | 10.7°F | 0.44 in | 35.9°F | 9.8°F | 0.53 in |
| February | 36.5°F | 11.9°F | 0.53 in | 38.6°F | 12.0°F | 0.57 in |
| March | 46.5°F | 19.9°F | 0.72 in | 49.0°F | 19.1°F | 0.84 in |
| April | 53.4°F | 27.6°F | 1.49 in | 56.5°F | 26.6°F | 1.89 in |
| May | 62.4°F | 37.0°F | 2.80 in | 65.7°F | 36.3°F | 2.67 in |
| June | 73.0°F | 45.9°F | 2.16 in | 75.8°F | 44.3°F | 2.11 in |
| July | 82.8°F | 53.1°F | 1.39 in | 85.7°F | 49.9°F | 0.94 in |
| August | 81.8°F | 50.8°F | 0.75 in | 84.3°F | 47.9°F | 0.88 in |
| September | 71.8°F | 41.7°F | 1.28 in | 73.7°F | 39.3°F | 1.26 in |
| October | 57.2°F | 29.6°F | 1.25 in | 58.8°F | 28.6°F | 1.57 in |
| November | 44.9°F | 19.4°F | 0.51 in | 45.3°F | 18.9°F | 0.70 in |
| December | 36.3°F | 11.0°F | 0.43 in | 35.8°F | 11.1°F | 0.58 in |
Cities that consider Buffalo their climate twin
These US cities have Buffalo in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Buffalo would feel familiar.
- Joliet, MT (ranks Buffalo #1)
- Columbus, MT (ranks Buffalo #1)
- Manhattan, MT (ranks Buffalo #1)
- Denton, MT (ranks Buffalo #2)
- Broadview, MT (ranks Buffalo #3)
- Lavina, MT (ranks Buffalo #3)
- Stanford, MT (ranks Buffalo #1)
- Clyde Park, MT (ranks Buffalo #2)
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 →