Climate twins of La Junta, CO

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

Top match: Ulysses, KS

Month	La Junta			Ulysses
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	46.4°F	16.5°F	0.45 in	45.6°F	16.2°F	0.43 in
February	50.3°F	19.9°F	0.44 in	49.8°F	19.3°F	0.32 in
March	60.8°F	27.9°F	0.98 in	59.7°F	27.1°F	1.08 in
April	67.7°F	36.2°F	1.36 in	68.2°F	36.0°F	1.51 in
May	77.3°F	46.4°F	1.68 in	78.2°F	47.0°F	1.96 in
June	88.4°F	57.1°F	1.46 in	88.6°F	58.6°F	2.59 in
July	92.7°F	62.5°F	2.21 in	92.8°F	63.4°F	2.88 in
August	90.4°F	60.7°F	1.71 in	90.4°F	61.8°F	2.87 in
September	83.4°F	51.6°F	0.99 in	83.5°F	52.9°F	1.34 in
October	70.4°F	37.2°F	1.32 in	70.8°F	38.7°F	1.60 in
November	56.6°F	25.4°F	0.50 in	57.2°F	26.2°F	0.49 in
December	46.0°F	17.1°F	0.52 in	46.5°F	17.5°F	0.69 in

Cities that consider La Junta their climate twin

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

Ulysses, KS (ranks La Junta #3)
Keenesburg, CO (ranks La Junta #2)
Kersey, CO (ranks La Junta #3)

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 →