Climate twins of Estes Park, CO

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

Top match: Westcliffe, CO

Month Estes Park Westcliffe
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.1°F 16.1°F 0.82 in 39.6°F 8.3°F 0.48 in
February 37.5°F 15.8°F 0.68 in 41.7°F 12.1°F 0.58 in
March 45.0°F 21.2°F 1.58 in 49.6°F 19.6°F 1.06 in
April 51.5°F 26.1°F 2.26 in 56.4°F 25.7°F 1.56 in
May 61.2°F 34.7°F 2.27 in 65.8°F 33.3°F 1.41 in
June 73.9°F 42.6°F 1.37 in 76.9°F 40.6°F 0.79 in
July 80.2°F 48.2°F 2.55 in 80.6°F 44.9°F 2.66 in
August 77.7°F 46.4°F 1.71 in 78.0°F 44.1°F 1.98 in
September 69.6°F 39.2°F 1.65 in 72.4°F 37.0°F 0.90 in
October 56.6°F 30.2°F 1.12 in 61.3°F 26.1°F 0.95 in
November 44.1°F 23.5°F 0.74 in 48.9°F 16.7°F 0.69 in
December 36.2°F 16.4°F 0.67 in 39.8°F 8.0°F 0.53 in

Cities that consider Estes Park their climate twin

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