Climate twins of Crested Butte, CO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Crested Butte'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: Crested Butte vs its climate twin
Top match: Stanley, ID
| Month | Crested Butte | Stanley | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 25.8°F | -6.5°F | 2.72 in | 25.7°F | -3.0°F | 1.80 in |
| February | 29.4°F | -2.1°F | 2.54 in | 32.7°F | -0.9°F | 1.44 in |
| March | 37.9°F | 7.0°F | 2.09 in | 42.6°F | 8.6°F | 2.02 in |
| April | 46.9°F | 19.1°F | 2.01 in | 49.7°F | 18.2°F | 1.69 in |
| May | 58.3°F | 28.5°F | 1.52 in | 60.4°F | 26.0°F | 1.67 in |
| June | 70.2°F | 33.7°F | 0.93 in | 68.8°F | 31.1°F | 1.48 in |
| July | 76.1°F | 39.5°F | 1.96 in | 80.2°F | 34.0°F | 0.62 in |
| August | 73.5°F | 38.4°F | 1.98 in | 79.4°F | 31.6°F | 0.55 in |
| September | 65.9°F | 31.2°F | 1.95 in | 70.3°F | 25.0°F | 1.01 in |
| October | 54.3°F | 22.0°F | 1.71 in | 56.1°F | 18.6°F | 1.60 in |
| November | 39.4°F | 9.3°F | 2.04 in | 38.4°F | 9.6°F | 2.00 in |
| December | 26.8°F | -4.2°F | 2.31 in | 25.0°F | -2.1°F | 2.32 in |
Cities that consider Crested Butte their climate twin
These US cities have Crested Butte in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Crested Butte would feel familiar.
- Stanley, ID (ranks Crested Butte #2)
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 →