Climate twins of Cheyenne, WY

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

Top match: Great Falls, MT

Month Cheyenne Great Falls
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 40.6°F 18.0°F 0.36 in 36.8°F 17.5°F 0.61 in
February 41.1°F 17.8°F 0.52 in 38.6°F 18.7°F 0.58 in
March 49.2°F 24.6°F 0.96 in 48.2°F 25.2°F 0.63 in
April 54.8°F 30.1°F 1.83 in 58.3°F 33.2°F 1.79 in
May 64.3°F 39.5°F 2.53 in 67.0°F 41.9°F 2.66 in
June 76.1°F 49.0°F 2.23 in 75.4°F 49.6°F 2.74 in
July 83.0°F 55.6°F 2.23 in 85.8°F 55.0°F 1.34 in
August 81.2°F 53.5°F 1.63 in 83.9°F 53.4°F 1.30 in
September 72.5°F 45.3°F 1.55 in 72.6°F 44.7°F 1.39 in
October 59.0°F 33.3°F 1.06 in 59.1°F 35.9°F 1.13 in
November 47.7°F 24.4°F 0.60 in 45.3°F 26.0°F 0.70 in
December 39.5°F 17.8°F 0.49 in 36.7°F 19.8°F 0.56 in

Cities that consider Cheyenne their climate twin

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