Climate twins of Burley, ID

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Burley'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
Carlin, NV
similarity distance: 0.697 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Sterling, UT
similarity distance: 0.835 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Manti, UT
similarity distance: 0.835 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Burley vs its climate twin

Top match: Carlin, NV

Month Burley Carlin
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.4°F 21.0°F 1.05 in 37.9°F 16.0°F 1.19 in
February 42.7°F 23.9°F 0.69 in 42.8°F 20.5°F 0.89 in
March 53.0°F 29.9°F 1.02 in 53.1°F 26.8°F 0.97 in
April 59.5°F 34.8°F 1.09 in 59.6°F 31.5°F 1.05 in
May 69.1°F 42.6°F 1.69 in 70.0°F 38.5°F 1.22 in
June 78.0°F 48.8°F 0.78 in 81.5°F 44.9°F 0.57 in
July 87.9°F 55.1°F 0.26 in 91.8°F 52.0°F 0.36 in
August 86.7°F 53.1°F 0.40 in 90.0°F 49.2°F 0.33 in
September 76.6°F 45.0°F 0.66 in 80.1°F 40.5°F 0.59 in
October 62.6°F 35.7°F 0.80 in 65.5°F 29.4°F 0.74 in
November 48.2°F 26.9°F 0.80 in 49.9°F 21.9°F 0.88 in
December 37.3°F 21.0°F 1.06 in 38.0°F 15.4°F 1.20 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 →