Climate twins of Montrose, CO

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

Top match: Torrey, UT

Month	Montrose			Torrey
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	40.2°F	17.5°F	0.51 in	38.0°F	21.7°F	0.43 in
February	46.4°F	23.0°F	0.47 in	43.4°F	25.9°F	0.57 in
March	56.8°F	30.2°F	0.68 in	53.4°F	31.9°F	0.68 in
April	64.1°F	36.6°F	0.77 in	59.9°F	37.9°F	0.49 in
May	73.9°F	45.0°F	0.82 in	70.3°F	46.3°F	0.55 in
June	85.5°F	53.3°F	0.50 in	82.0°F	56.1°F	0.43 in
July	90.2°F	59.2°F	0.90 in	86.6°F	62.2°F	1.59 in
August	87.1°F	57.5°F	1.12 in	84.6°F	59.9°F	0.94 in
September	79.4°F	49.0°F	1.24 in	75.9°F	52.7°F	0.91 in
October	66.5°F	37.3°F	1.03 in	62.2°F	41.0°F	0.90 in
November	52.2°F	27.2°F	0.65 in	48.2°F	29.4°F	0.47 in
December	40.6°F	17.7°F	0.64 in	37.0°F	20.8°F	0.42 in

Cities that consider Montrose their climate twin

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

Torrey, UT (ranks Montrose #2)
Escalante, UT (ranks Montrose #2)
Clawson, UT (ranks Montrose #3)
Ferron, UT (ranks Montrose #3)
Milford, UT (ranks Montrose #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 →