Climate twins of Ely, NV

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Ely'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.

Rank 1 closest
Malta, ID
similarity distance: 0.611 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Aberdeen, ID
similarity distance: 0.789 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Vernon, UT
similarity distance: 0.811 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Ely vs its climate twin

Top match: Malta, ID

Month Ely Malta
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.0°F 12.4°F 0.75 in 36.3°F 17.1°F 0.70 in
February 43.8°F 16.2°F 0.84 in 41.5°F 20.3°F 0.41 in
March 52.4°F 22.9°F 0.98 in 52.2°F 24.4°F 0.75 in
April 58.9°F 27.5°F 1.07 in 58.1°F 30.0°F 1.01 in
May 68.9°F 34.0°F 1.05 in 67.8°F 36.5°F 1.46 in
June 81.1°F 41.4°F 0.56 in 77.9°F 42.4°F 0.65 in
July 89.4°F 49.1°F 0.63 in 87.6°F 48.4°F 0.73 in
August 87.3°F 47.6°F 0.79 in 86.5°F 47.6°F 0.92 in
September 78.0°F 38.8°F 0.64 in 76.7°F 39.8°F 0.88 in
October 64.5°F 28.3°F 0.80 in 62.7°F 30.8°F 0.82 in
November 50.9°F 19.2°F 0.63 in 47.5°F 23.0°F 0.58 in
December 40.8°F 11.7°F 0.67 in 36.3°F 16.6°F 0.70 in

Cities that consider Ely their climate twin

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