Climate twins of Loa, UT

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Loa'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
San Luis, CO
similarity distance: 0.611 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Buena Vista, CO
similarity distance: 0.629 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Del Norte, CO
similarity distance: 0.715 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Loa vs its climate twin

Top match: San Luis, CO

Month Loa San Luis
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 39.6°F 9.5°F 0.39 in 37.0°F 6.3°F 0.38 in
February 42.6°F 13.7°F 0.45 in 41.3°F 12.1°F 0.50 in
March 51.2°F 20.4°F 0.51 in 52.1°F 22.7°F 0.35 in
April 58.0°F 26.2°F 0.50 in 58.3°F 27.0°F 0.56 in
May 67.3°F 34.8°F 0.75 in 67.9°F 34.5°F 0.73 in
June 78.3°F 42.7°F 0.57 in 79.2°F 41.5°F 0.79 in
July 83.5°F 50.2°F 1.34 in 81.9°F 48.2°F 1.51 in
August 81.3°F 48.2°F 1.37 in 79.3°F 47.4°F 1.29 in
September 74.7°F 38.8°F 0.98 in 73.6°F 39.4°F 1.04 in
October 62.7°F 27.2°F 0.84 in 62.8°F 28.4°F 0.94 in
November 50.3°F 17.6°F 0.29 in 49.1°F 17.6°F 0.50 in
December 39.7°F 9.3°F 0.42 in 38.6°F 8.9°F 0.41 in

Cities that consider Loa their climate twin

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