Climate twins of Lamar, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Lamar'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: 1.169 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Eckley, CO
similarity distance: 1.169 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Danbury, NE
similarity distance: 1.210 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Lamar vs its climate twin

Top match: Yuma, CO

Month Lamar Yuma
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.1°F 13.7°F 0.33 in 42.6°F 17.2°F 0.29 in
February 49.2°F 17.0°F 0.42 in 45.2°F 18.8°F 0.44 in
March 60.2°F 26.3°F 0.72 in 56.2°F 27.1°F 0.81 in
April 68.4°F 36.1°F 1.46 in 63.3°F 34.5°F 1.64 in
May 77.7°F 46.8°F 1.93 in 73.2°F 45.8°F 2.94 in
June 88.7°F 57.5°F 2.53 in 85.8°F 56.4°F 2.49 in
July 93.3°F 62.9°F 2.81 in 91.8°F 62.1°F 3.07 in
August 90.6°F 60.9°F 2.78 in 88.9°F 59.7°F 2.64 in
September 83.5°F 51.5°F 1.19 in 80.6°F 50.2°F 1.44 in
October 69.9°F 36.0°F 1.08 in 66.3°F 36.9°F 1.25 in
November 56.4°F 23.3°F 0.48 in 53.2°F 26.0°F 0.50 in
December 45.5°F 14.4°F 0.46 in 42.9°F 17.6°F 0.45 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 →