Climate twins of Burns, WY

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

Top match: Roundup, MT

Month	Burns			Roundup
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	40.1°F	13.3°F	0.25 in	37.2°F	13.1°F	0.37 in
February	42.0°F	14.1°F	0.39 in	40.7°F	14.9°F	0.42 in
March	52.2°F	20.9°F	0.79 in	50.6°F	22.1°F	0.71 in
April	58.6°F	29.9°F	1.44 in	59.9°F	30.0°F	1.71 in
May	68.3°F	39.6°F	2.42 in	69.1°F	39.3°F	2.55 in
June	80.9°F	48.3°F	2.10 in	78.3°F	47.8°F	2.89 in
July	86.7°F	55.1°F	2.21 in	88.9°F	53.5°F	1.70 in
August	84.7°F	52.6°F	1.88 in	87.9°F	51.1°F	1.21 in
September	76.5°F	43.0°F	1.87 in	76.9°F	42.4°F	1.20 in
October	63.3°F	32.5°F	1.12 in	60.9°F	31.7°F	1.22 in
November	49.4°F	20.5°F	0.47 in	46.6°F	21.8°F	0.49 in
December	40.7°F	13.0°F	0.40 in	37.2°F	14.2°F	0.41 in

Cities that consider Burns their climate twin

These US cities have Burns in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Burns would feel familiar.

Monument, CO (ranks Burns #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 →