Climate twins of Moffat, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Moffat'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
Panguitch, UT
similarity distance: 0.934 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Antimony, UT
similarity distance: 1.059 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Koosharem, UT
similarity distance: 1.073 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Moffat vs its climate twin

Top match: Panguitch, UT

Month Moffat Panguitch
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 33.0°F 9.2°F 0.50 in 39.2°F 8.1°F 0.57 in
February 38.5°F 14.7°F 0.48 in 43.7°F 11.3°F 0.70 in
March 48.8°F 22.3°F 0.99 in 52.3°F 18.9°F 0.66 in
April 56.6°F 28.0°F 1.07 in 59.7°F 23.2°F 0.57 in
May 66.5°F 36.2°F 1.15 in 69.3°F 31.4°F 0.68 in
June 77.6°F 45.1°F 0.83 in 81.5°F 38.8°F 0.42 in
July 81.5°F 49.6°F 2.11 in 86.1°F 46.6°F 1.40 in
August 78.7°F 48.1°F 1.91 in 83.2°F 44.4°F 1.72 in
September 71.9°F 41.5°F 1.24 in 76.5°F 35.4°F 1.27 in
October 59.7°F 30.7°F 0.91 in 64.3°F 24.9°F 1.18 in
November 44.8°F 19.3°F 0.66 in 50.3°F 15.5°F 0.67 in
December 33.4°F 9.7°F 0.58 in 39.0°F 7.3°F 0.52 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 →