Climate twins of Craig, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Craig'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
Grace, ID
similarity distance: 1.017 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Kirby, WY
similarity distance: 1.028 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Newdale, ID
similarity distance: 1.095 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Craig vs its climate twin

Top match: Grace, ID

Month Craig Grace
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.6°F 3.0°F 0.91 in 30.5°F 13.3°F 1.13 in
February 35.7°F 8.6°F 0.89 in 34.4°F 15.7°F 0.98 in
March 48.2°F 19.8°F 0.99 in 43.8°F 23.8°F 1.30 in
April 58.5°F 27.3°F 1.67 in 53.7°F 30.7°F 1.45 in
May 69.1°F 34.5°F 1.63 in 63.9°F 37.7°F 2.38 in
June 81.2°F 40.6°F 0.99 in 74.3°F 44.1°F 1.32 in
July 89.2°F 47.3°F 0.93 in 85.3°F 50.0°F 0.76 in
August 86.5°F 46.0°F 0.97 in 84.1°F 48.5°F 1.04 in
September 77.2°F 36.9°F 1.75 in 73.4°F 40.9°F 1.38 in
October 62.3°F 26.4°F 1.48 in 58.7°F 31.7°F 1.40 in
November 46.6°F 17.1°F 0.99 in 42.8°F 22.7°F 0.92 in
December 32.2°F 5.3°F 0.90 in 31.6°F 14.4°F 0.99 in

Cities that consider Craig their climate twin

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