Climate twins of Palisade, CO

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

Top match: Bloomfield, NM

Month	Palisade			Bloomfield
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	39.9°F	20.7°F	0.61 in	43.4°F	20.6°F	0.66 in
February	47.2°F	26.3°F	0.65 in	50.3°F	25.2°F	0.57 in
March	58.4°F	34.5°F	0.85 in	60.8°F	30.6°F	0.57 in
April	65.6°F	40.4°F	1.11 in	68.8°F	37.2°F	0.67 in
May	75.6°F	49.7°F	1.10 in	78.2°F	45.9°F	0.49 in
June	87.3°F	58.5°F	0.55 in	89.3°F	55.5°F	0.21 in
July	92.6°F	64.8°F	0.68 in	92.4°F	62.1°F	0.72 in
August	89.6°F	62.9°F	0.88 in	89.7°F	60.3°F	1.11 in
September	81.1°F	54.5°F	1.36 in	82.8°F	52.4°F	0.99 in
October	67.4°F	41.6°F	1.30 in	70.5°F	40.3°F	0.80 in
November	52.9°F	30.9°F	0.79 in	55.6°F	28.6°F	0.72 in
December	40.5°F	21.5°F	0.59 in	43.8°F	20.9°F	0.57 in

Cities that consider Palisade their climate twin

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

Bloomfield, NM (ranks Palisade #2)
Colorado City, AZ (ranks Palisade #3)
Apple Valley, UT (ranks Palisade #3)
Hildale, UT (ranks Palisade #3)

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 →