Climate twins of Colby, KS

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Colby'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.

Rank 1 closest
Vilas, CO
similarity distance: 1.200 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Flagler, CO
similarity distance: 1.272 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Arriba, CO
similarity distance: 1.272 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Colby vs its climate twin

Top match: Vilas, CO

Month Colby Vilas
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.0°F 15.1°F 0.41 in 46.2°F 18.9°F 0.46 in
February 45.7°F 17.4°F 0.56 in 50.2°F 21.3°F 0.40 in
March 56.2°F 25.5°F 0.92 in 59.5°F 28.6°F 1.06 in
April 64.7°F 34.4°F 1.97 in 67.6°F 36.7°F 1.65 in
May 74.3°F 45.9°F 2.92 in 77.5°F 47.1°F 2.12 in
June 86.4°F 57.2°F 2.62 in 88.4°F 57.6°F 2.60 in
July 91.0°F 62.3°F 3.81 in 92.9°F 62.5°F 3.57 in
August 88.4°F 59.8°F 3.04 in 89.7°F 61.0°F 3.26 in
September 81.3°F 50.3°F 1.44 in 82.6°F 52.8°F 1.43 in
October 68.3°F 36.2°F 1.56 in 69.9°F 39.2°F 1.64 in
November 54.3°F 24.7°F 0.63 in 56.5°F 28.2°F 0.58 in
December 44.1°F 16.4°F 0.51 in 46.5°F 19.8°F 0.76 in

Cities that consider Colby their climate twin

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