Climate twins of Monument, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Monument'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
Cheyenne, WY
similarity distance: 1.188 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Burns, WY
similarity distance: 1.391 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Dix, NE
similarity distance: 1.465 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Monument vs its climate twin

Top match: Cheyenne, WY

Month Monument Cheyenne
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.3°F 14.4°F 0.52 in 40.6°F 18.0°F 0.36 in
February 43.4°F 14.2°F 0.58 in 41.1°F 17.8°F 0.52 in
March 51.7°F 22.6°F 1.33 in 49.2°F 24.6°F 0.96 in
April 57.3°F 28.5°F 2.10 in 54.8°F 30.1°F 1.83 in
May 67.0°F 37.8°F 2.26 in 64.3°F 39.5°F 2.53 in
June 78.9°F 46.8°F 1.76 in 76.1°F 49.0°F 2.23 in
July 84.1°F 52.7°F 2.69 in 83.0°F 55.6°F 2.23 in
August 81.2°F 51.2°F 3.11 in 81.2°F 53.5°F 1.63 in
September 75.1°F 44.1°F 1.70 in 72.5°F 45.3°F 1.55 in
October 63.2°F 31.6°F 0.87 in 59.0°F 33.3°F 1.06 in
November 51.8°F 22.1°F 0.69 in 47.7°F 24.4°F 0.60 in
December 43.2°F 14.6°F 0.47 in 39.5°F 17.8°F 0.49 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 →