Climate twins of Holly, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Holly'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
Yuma, CO
similarity distance: 1.003 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Eckley, CO
similarity distance: 1.003 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Indianola, NE
similarity distance: 1.017 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Holly vs its climate twin

Top match: Yuma, CO

Month Holly Yuma
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.7°F 15.3°F 0.39 in 42.6°F 17.2°F 0.29 in
February 49.7°F 18.1°F 0.34 in 45.2°F 18.8°F 0.44 in
March 60.2°F 26.3°F 0.88 in 56.2°F 27.1°F 0.81 in
April 68.3°F 34.3°F 1.45 in 63.3°F 34.5°F 1.64 in
May 77.9°F 45.8°F 2.16 in 73.2°F 45.8°F 2.94 in
June 89.1°F 56.2°F 2.51 in 85.8°F 56.4°F 2.49 in
July 93.4°F 62.7°F 2.99 in 91.8°F 62.1°F 3.07 in
August 90.6°F 60.9°F 2.89 in 88.9°F 59.7°F 2.64 in
September 83.1°F 51.0°F 1.18 in 80.6°F 50.2°F 1.44 in
October 70.5°F 36.9°F 1.33 in 66.3°F 36.9°F 1.25 in
November 57.0°F 24.2°F 0.61 in 53.2°F 26.0°F 0.50 in
December 46.2°F 15.2°F 0.52 in 42.9°F 17.6°F 0.45 in

Cities that consider Holly their climate twin

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