Climate twins of Fruita, CO

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

Top match: Farmington, NM

Month	Fruita			Farmington
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	39.0°F	14.9°F	0.75 in	43.0°F	19.2°F	0.72 in
February	47.2°F	21.4°F	0.77 in	49.5°F	23.5°F	0.65 in
March	59.0°F	29.2°F	0.92 in	59.9°F	29.6°F	0.60 in
April	67.3°F	34.9°F	0.92 in	67.4°F	35.3°F	0.56 in
May	78.3°F	45.1°F	0.85 in	77.2°F	43.6°F	0.53 in
June	89.1°F	52.5°F	0.55 in	89.3°F	52.5°F	0.20 in
July	94.6°F	59.8°F	0.66 in	93.3°F	60.9°F	0.63 in
August	91.5°F	58.3°F	0.84 in	89.7°F	59.5°F	0.79 in
September	83.0°F	48.4°F	1.12 in	82.1°F	50.5°F	1.06 in
October	68.8°F	36.0°F	1.18 in	68.8°F	37.8°F	0.79 in
November	53.9°F	25.2°F	0.65 in	54.6°F	27.1°F	0.66 in
December	40.4°F	16.2°F	0.68 in	43.1°F	19.4°F	0.57 in

Cities that consider Fruita their climate twin

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

Farmington, NM (ranks Fruita #2)
Hinckley, UT (ranks Fruita #3)
Aztec, NM (ranks Fruita #3)
Milford, UT (ranks Fruita #2)

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 →