Climate twins of Norwood, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Norwood'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
Taos, NM
similarity distance: 1.074 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Questa, NM
similarity distance: 1.083 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Cuba, NM
similarity distance: 1.150 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Norwood vs its climate twin

Top match: Taos, NM

Month Norwood Taos
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.9°F 13.3°F 0.90 in 42.1°F 12.2°F 0.67 in
February 42.6°F 17.9°F 0.74 in 46.4°F 19.4°F 0.45 in
March 52.3°F 24.8°F 0.97 in 55.2°F 25.3°F 0.71 in
April 59.2°F 30.5°F 1.13 in 63.0°F 30.5°F 0.83 in
May 68.8°F 38.1°F 1.18 in 72.9°F 37.1°F 1.22 in
June 80.5°F 45.9°F 0.66 in 83.7°F 47.4°F 0.86 in
July 85.2°F 52.6°F 2.00 in 86.5°F 52.7°F 1.53 in
August 82.2°F 51.1°F 2.17 in 84.2°F 51.3°F 1.77 in
September 75.1°F 44.2°F 2.04 in 78.1°F 44.8°F 1.37 in
October 62.4°F 33.5°F 1.48 in 67.0°F 32.3°F 1.34 in
November 49.7°F 22.5°F 1.31 in 53.1°F 22.4°F 0.88 in
December 39.4°F 13.5°F 1.17 in 42.4°F 13.6°F 1.07 in

Cities that consider Norwood their climate twin

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

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 →