Climate twins of Castle Rock, CO

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

Top match: Starkville, CO

Month Castle Rock Starkville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.6°F 18.0°F 0.55 in 47.7°F 15.2°F 0.56 in
February 46.7°F 19.9°F 0.70 in 49.6°F 17.7°F 0.58 in
March 53.8°F 26.5°F 1.54 in 56.9°F 24.3°F 1.20 in
April 59.1°F 32.5°F 2.08 in 62.8°F 30.7°F 1.73 in
May 68.4°F 41.6°F 1.97 in 72.4°F 40.1°F 1.71 in
June 80.2°F 50.5°F 2.20 in 83.2°F 49.8°F 1.55 in
July 85.7°F 56.4°F 2.32 in 86.9°F 54.3°F 2.97 in
August 83.6°F 54.7°F 2.52 in 84.4°F 52.6°F 2.66 in
September 76.7°F 46.6°F 1.39 in 78.7°F 45.1°F 1.40 in
October 64.8°F 34.6°F 0.85 in 67.4°F 33.2°F 1.31 in
November 53.9°F 25.7°F 0.79 in 55.6°F 23.6°F 0.82 in
December 45.7°F 18.0°F 0.69 in 47.7°F 15.5°F 0.73 in

Cities that consider Castle Rock their climate twin

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