Climate twins of Moab, UT

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

Top match: Big Water, UT

Month	Moab			Big Water
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	43.5°F	21.4°F	0.65 in	45.2°F	23.3°F	0.72 in
February	52.1°F	27.2°F	0.66 in	52.3°F	28.2°F	0.81 in
March	64.6°F	35.6°F	0.70 in	62.5°F	34.6°F	0.72 in
April	72.3°F	42.6°F	0.77 in	70.9°F	41.2°F	0.53 in
May	82.6°F	50.7°F	0.82 in	81.0°F	49.5°F	0.51 in
June	93.9°F	58.9°F	0.35 in	93.0°F	59.4°F	0.20 in
July	99.2°F	66.3°F	0.92 in	97.8°F	67.1°F	0.47 in
August	95.9°F	64.1°F	0.88 in	94.5°F	65.2°F	0.91 in
September	87.7°F	54.7°F	0.89 in	86.7°F	56.3°F	0.81 in
October	73.5°F	41.7°F	1.03 in	72.0°F	43.6°F	1.00 in
November	57.1°F	30.3°F	0.70 in	56.7°F	31.7°F	0.43 in
December	43.9°F	22.0°F	0.76 in	44.8°F	24.6°F	0.56 in

Cities that consider Moab their climate twin

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

Big Water, UT (ranks Moab #1)

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 →