Climate twins of Ouray, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Ouray'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
Beaver, UT
similarity distance: 1.244 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Park City, UT
similarity distance: 1.737 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Hideout, UT
similarity distance: 1.737 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Ouray vs its climate twin

Top match: Beaver, UT

Month Ouray Beaver
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 36.4°F 15.7°F 1.77 in 36.9°F 15.6°F 1.87 in
February 40.7°F 18.2°F 1.74 in 39.8°F 17.0°F 1.82 in
March 47.2°F 24.6°F 2.47 in 47.0°F 22.8°F 2.09 in
April 54.4°F 29.8°F 2.49 in 52.8°F 27.7°F 2.17 in
May 64.3°F 37.5°F 1.84 in 63.4°F 35.8°F 1.86 in
June 76.0°F 46.9°F 0.97 in 74.8°F 44.5°F 0.82 in
July 79.9°F 52.3°F 2.66 in 79.7°F 51.5°F 1.96 in
August 76.9°F 51.2°F 2.70 in 77.7°F 51.0°F 1.64 in
September 70.5°F 44.9°F 2.04 in 71.0°F 43.5°F 1.26 in
October 58.3°F 34.0°F 2.20 in 58.0°F 32.7°F 1.74 in
November 46.0°F 24.4°F 1.72 in 45.1°F 23.8°F 1.27 in
December 36.3°F 16.9°F 1.47 in 35.9°F 15.8°F 1.72 in

Cities that consider Ouray their climate twin

These US cities have Ouray in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Ouray 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 →