Climate twins of Gilcrest, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Gilcrest'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
Haxtun, CO
similarity distance: 1.163 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Cheraw, CO
similarity distance: 1.229 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Eads, CO
similarity distance: 1.259 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Gilcrest vs its climate twin

Top match: Haxtun, CO

Month Gilcrest Haxtun
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.1°F 17.5°F 0.45 in 41.7°F 17.1°F 0.25 in
February 47.7°F 20.0°F 0.45 in 44.3°F 18.8°F 0.40 in
March 59.1°F 28.1°F 0.91 in 54.3°F 26.6°F 0.90 in
April 66.0°F 35.3°F 1.83 in 61.6°F 33.6°F 1.81 in
May 74.7°F 44.5°F 2.65 in 71.1°F 44.6°F 3.09 in
June 85.8°F 53.6°F 1.78 in 83.1°F 54.9°F 2.49 in
July 91.7°F 59.3°F 1.61 in 90.0°F 61.2°F 2.60 in
August 89.2°F 57.3°F 1.56 in 88.3°F 58.5°F 2.17 in
September 81.9°F 48.7°F 1.13 in 80.2°F 49.5°F 1.28 in
October 67.8°F 36.6°F 1.06 in 65.4°F 36.4°F 1.28 in
November 53.6°F 25.8°F 0.67 in 52.0°F 25.5°F 0.51 in
December 43.4°F 17.8°F 0.55 in 42.2°F 17.4°F 0.40 in

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 →