Climate twins of Garden City, UT

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

Top match: Rawlins, WY

Month Garden City Rawlins
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.9°F 15.8°F 1.59 in 31.0°F 14.8°F 1.08 in
February 35.5°F 17.4°F 1.28 in 32.5°F 16.3°F 1.02 in
March 43.5°F 23.8°F 1.24 in 42.4°F 23.6°F 1.60 in
April 53.3°F 31.3°F 1.64 in 51.0°F 29.8°F 1.74 in
May 63.7°F 39.7°F 2.08 in 62.4°F 38.1°F 2.36 in
June 73.9°F 46.3°F 1.28 in 74.4°F 48.0°F 1.39 in
July 83.5°F 55.0°F 0.64 in 81.6°F 55.3°F 1.02 in
August 81.8°F 54.0°F 0.93 in 79.6°F 53.3°F 1.09 in
September 72.6°F 45.4°F 1.33 in 71.1°F 45.3°F 1.49 in
October 58.8°F 34.5°F 1.43 in 55.9°F 33.6°F 1.69 in
November 44.4°F 25.7°F 1.41 in 40.7°F 24.5°F 1.24 in
December 35.2°F 19.1°F 1.68 in 30.5°F 15.5°F 1.14 in

Cities that consider Garden City their climate twin

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