Climate twins of Leadville, CO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Leadville'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: Leadville vs its climate twin
Top match: Stanley, ID
| Month | Leadville | Stanley | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 29.5°F | 4.6°F | 0.99 in | 25.7°F | -3.0°F | 1.80 in |
| February | 30.6°F | 5.7°F | 0.91 in | 32.7°F | -0.9°F | 1.44 in |
| March | 36.9°F | 12.3°F | 1.02 in | 42.6°F | 8.6°F | 2.02 in |
| April | 43.0°F | 19.1°F | 1.36 in | 49.7°F | 18.2°F | 1.69 in |
| May | 54.3°F | 27.4°F | 1.06 in | 60.4°F | 26.0°F | 1.67 in |
| June | 66.2°F | 34.0°F | 0.82 in | 68.8°F | 31.1°F | 1.48 in |
| July | 71.0°F | 39.2°F | 1.72 in | 80.2°F | 34.0°F | 0.62 in |
| August | 68.1°F | 38.1°F | 1.87 in | 79.4°F | 31.6°F | 0.55 in |
| September | 61.5°F | 31.6°F | 1.13 in | 70.3°F | 25.0°F | 1.01 in |
| October | 49.9°F | 23.6°F | 0.90 in | 56.1°F | 18.6°F | 1.60 in |
| November | 37.1°F | 12.5°F | 0.86 in | 38.4°F | 9.6°F | 2.00 in |
| December | 29.4°F | 4.8°F | 0.88 in | 25.0°F | -2.1°F | 2.32 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 →