Climate twins of Dutch John, UT

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

Top match: Joseph, UT

Month	Dutch John			Joseph
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	36.6°F	13.0°F	0.49 in	42.3°F	12.4°F	0.78 in
February	39.8°F	15.1°F	0.66 in	46.3°F	16.2°F	0.97 in
March	49.6°F	24.0°F	0.89 in	54.9°F	22.3°F	0.85 in
April	56.7°F	30.4°F	1.10 in	61.0°F	27.4°F	1.14 in
May	67.1°F	38.1°F	1.35 in	70.9°F	35.2°F	1.19 in
June	79.2°F	45.5°F	0.94 in	82.7°F	43.0°F	0.63 in
July	86.8°F	52.4°F	1.04 in	89.6°F	51.0°F	1.23 in
August	84.4°F	51.7°F	1.19 in	87.5°F	49.0°F	1.30 in
September	75.4°F	42.6°F	1.67 in	79.5°F	39.6°F	1.01 in
October	61.5°F	32.0°F	1.37 in	66.3°F	28.5°F	1.21 in
November	46.4°F	22.1°F	0.52 in	52.5°F	19.3°F	0.88 in
December	36.4°F	13.4°F	0.54 in	41.8°F	11.7°F	0.89 in

Cities that consider Dutch John their climate twin

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

Joseph, UT (ranks Dutch John #2)
Ignacio, CO (ranks Dutch John #3)

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 →