Climate twins of Denver, CO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Denver'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: Denver vs its climate twin
Top match: Crook, CO
| Month | Denver | Crook | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 46.5°F | 17.6°F | 0.46 in | 44.0°F | 13.2°F | 0.31 in |
| February | 47.5°F | 19.3°F | 0.53 in | 46.9°F | 15.6°F | 0.50 in |
| March | 56.4°F | 27.1°F | 1.12 in | 57.4°F | 23.6°F | 0.89 in |
| April | 62.5°F | 33.7°F | 1.67 in | 64.5°F | 31.3°F | 1.80 in |
| May | 71.7°F | 43.4°F | 2.29 in | 73.4°F | 41.9°F | 2.75 in |
| June | 84.1°F | 52.9°F | 1.68 in | 85.4°F | 52.3°F | 2.63 in |
| July | 90.2°F | 59.3°F | 2.12 in | 91.9°F | 58.2°F | 2.61 in |
| August | 87.9°F | 57.2°F | 1.83 in | 89.9°F | 55.9°F | 2.09 in |
| September | 80.1°F | 48.2°F | 1.51 in | 81.8°F | 46.7°F | 1.38 in |
| October | 66.7°F | 35.7°F | 0.98 in | 68.1°F | 33.5°F | 1.16 in |
| November | 54.8°F | 25.5°F | 0.70 in | 55.4°F | 21.8°F | 0.45 in |
| December | 45.9°F | 17.7°F | 0.47 in | 44.3°F | 13.6°F | 0.33 in |
Cities that consider Denver their climate twin
These US cities have Denver in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Denver would feel familiar.
- Crook, CO (ranks Denver #2)
- Seibert, CO (ranks Denver #1)
- Vona, CO (ranks Denver #2)
- Fleming, CO (ranks Denver #1)
- Haxtun, CO (ranks Denver #1)
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 →