Climate twins of East Thermopolis, WY

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

Top match: Hardin, MT

Month East Thermopolis Hardin
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.3°F 11.5°F 0.39 in 36.4°F 10.9°F 0.50 in
February 41.6°F 15.6°F 0.44 in 41.1°F 14.5°F 0.55 in
March 54.0°F 25.6°F 0.85 in 52.8°F 23.1°F 0.89 in
April 61.9°F 33.4°F 1.63 in 62.1°F 31.8°F 1.50 in
May 71.4°F 42.5°F 2.53 in 71.4°F 41.2°F 2.52 in
June 82.9°F 50.6°F 1.31 in 81.0°F 49.7°F 1.92 in
July 91.8°F 57.1°F 0.76 in 90.7°F 55.5°F 1.28 in
August 89.8°F 55.0°F 0.50 in 89.7°F 53.3°F 0.86 in
September 79.7°F 45.7°F 1.21 in 79.1°F 44.1°F 1.36 in
October 64.5°F 33.8°F 1.27 in 63.6°F 32.8°F 1.36 in
November 48.6°F 21.7°F 0.60 in 48.3°F 21.5°F 0.52 in
December 37.5°F 12.3°F 0.46 in 38.0°F 12.9°F 0.49 in

Cities that consider East Thermopolis their climate twin

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