Climate twins of Burlington, WY

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Burlington'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: Burlington vs its climate twin

Top match: Salmon, ID

Month Burlington Salmon
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.8°F 8.5°F 0.24 in 28.2°F 11.0°F 0.58 in
February 35.4°F 12.7°F 0.26 in 35.8°F 16.3°F 0.37 in
March 49.5°F 23.3°F 0.36 in 49.5°F 25.5°F 0.47 in
April 58.5°F 31.5°F 0.83 in 58.7°F 31.6°F 0.77 in
May 67.7°F 41.2°F 1.41 in 68.3°F 39.7°F 1.29 in
June 77.6°F 49.4°F 1.31 in 75.7°F 46.2°F 1.63 in
July 85.9°F 55.2°F 0.63 in 86.3°F 51.6°F 0.77 in
August 84.0°F 52.7°F 0.42 in 84.8°F 48.7°F 0.60 in
September 73.7°F 44.0°F 1.00 in 74.3°F 40.6°F 0.79 in
October 58.3°F 32.3°F 0.76 in 58.4°F 30.8°F 0.81 in
November 43.1°F 19.7°F 0.29 in 40.8°F 21.6°F 0.67 in
December 31.8°F 9.9°F 0.22 in 28.9°F 12.9°F 0.73 in

Cities that consider Burlington their climate twin

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