Climate twins of Cañon City, CO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Cañon City'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: Cañon City vs its climate twin
Top match: Springfield, CO
| Month | Cañon City | Springfield | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 49.4°F | 18.4°F | 0.55 in | 47.8°F | 17.2°F | 0.30 in |
| February | 50.4°F | 19.7°F | 0.57 in | 49.8°F | 19.3°F | 0.32 in |
| March | 58.5°F | 26.1°F | 1.04 in | 59.0°F | 26.6°F | 0.91 in |
| April | 64.3°F | 33.2°F | 1.76 in | 66.1°F | 34.4°F | 1.33 in |
| May | 73.3°F | 43.0°F | 1.56 in | 75.8°F | 44.8°F | 1.75 in |
| June | 84.6°F | 52.2°F | 0.85 in | 87.0°F | 55.4°F | 1.85 in |
| July | 89.2°F | 58.7°F | 2.25 in | 90.5°F | 60.6°F | 2.81 in |
| August | 86.7°F | 57.2°F | 2.06 in | 87.8°F | 59.3°F | 2.53 in |
| September | 80.1°F | 48.4°F | 1.20 in | 81.0°F | 51.1°F | 1.38 in |
| October | 68.6°F | 36.1°F | 0.87 in | 68.8°F | 36.9°F | 1.02 in |
| November | 57.2°F | 26.3°F | 0.55 in | 56.7°F | 25.3°F | 0.43 in |
| December | 49.0°F | 18.7°F | 0.46 in | 46.8°F | 17.9°F | 0.58 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 →