Climate twins of Crestone, CO

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

Top match: Panguitch, UT

Month	Crestone			Panguitch
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	33.0°F	9.2°F	0.50 in	39.2°F	8.1°F	0.57 in
February	38.5°F	14.7°F	0.48 in	43.7°F	11.3°F	0.70 in
March	48.8°F	22.3°F	0.99 in	52.3°F	18.9°F	0.66 in
April	56.6°F	28.0°F	1.07 in	59.7°F	23.2°F	0.57 in
May	66.5°F	36.2°F	1.15 in	69.3°F	31.4°F	0.68 in
June	77.6°F	45.1°F	0.83 in	81.5°F	38.8°F	0.42 in
July	81.5°F	49.6°F	2.11 in	86.1°F	46.6°F	1.40 in
August	78.7°F	48.1°F	1.91 in	83.2°F	44.4°F	1.72 in
September	71.9°F	41.5°F	1.24 in	76.5°F	35.4°F	1.27 in
October	59.7°F	30.7°F	0.91 in	64.3°F	24.9°F	1.18 in
November	44.8°F	19.3°F	0.66 in	50.3°F	15.5°F	0.67 in
December	33.4°F	9.7°F	0.58 in	39.0°F	7.3°F	0.52 in

Cities that consider Crestone their climate twin

These US cities have Crestone in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Crestone would feel familiar.

Ridgway, CO (ranks Crestone #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 →