Climate twins of Koosharem, UT

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

Top match: Buena Vista, CO

Month Koosharem Buena Vista
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.7°F 11.9°F 0.70 in 40.6°F 11.1°F 0.33 in
February 43.0°F 15.6°F 0.48 in 42.6°F 13.6°F 0.44 in
March 51.7°F 21.4°F 0.72 in 50.4°F 21.2°F 0.62 in
April 59.1°F 26.7°F 0.59 in 56.5°F 26.6°F 1.02 in
May 68.6°F 32.4°F 0.88 in 66.5°F 35.7°F 1.17 in
June 79.6°F 41.1°F 0.55 in 78.4°F 43.4°F 0.70 in
July 84.9°F 47.9°F 1.29 in 83.2°F 49.2°F 1.51 in
August 81.8°F 46.6°F 1.37 in 80.2°F 47.2°F 1.57 in
September 74.8°F 39.0°F 1.14 in 74.0°F 39.6°F 0.90 in
October 62.5°F 28.2°F 1.16 in 62.3°F 28.9°F 0.80 in
November 50.7°F 18.9°F 0.56 in 49.7°F 19.5°F 0.44 in
December 39.4°F 10.7°F 0.65 in 40.1°F 11.3°F 0.43 in

Cities that consider Koosharem their climate twin

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