Climate twins of Loveland, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Loveland'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
Laurel, MT
similarity distance: 0.800 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Glendo, WY
similarity distance: 0.808 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Billings, MT
similarity distance: 0.903 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Loveland vs its climate twin

Top match: Laurel, MT

Month Loveland Laurel
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.9°F 12.9°F 0.52 in 37.2°F 15.1°F 0.58 in
February 46.2°F 15.4°F 0.62 in 41.1°F 17.5°F 0.60 in
March 56.1°F 23.0°F 1.28 in 51.3°F 25.1°F 1.02 in
April 62.4°F 30.6°F 2.18 in 59.2°F 33.7°F 1.80 in
May 71.0°F 39.8°F 2.68 in 68.9°F 42.9°F 2.45 in
June 82.7°F 49.2°F 1.63 in 79.0°F 51.4°F 2.09 in
July 88.6°F 55.1°F 1.47 in 88.7°F 57.0°F 1.37 in
August 86.7°F 52.9°F 1.29 in 87.2°F 54.9°F 0.80 in
September 78.9°F 44.2°F 1.36 in 75.9°F 45.7°F 1.40 in
October 65.2°F 32.2°F 1.18 in 60.7°F 35.1°F 1.47 in
November 52.8°F 21.1°F 0.81 in 46.9°F 23.8°F 0.63 in
December 43.6°F 13.4°F 0.58 in 37.4°F 16.6°F 0.61 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 →