Climate twins of Panguitch, UT

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

Top match: San Luis, CO

Month Panguitch San Luis
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 39.2°F 8.1°F 0.57 in 37.0°F 6.3°F 0.38 in
February 43.7°F 11.3°F 0.70 in 41.3°F 12.1°F 0.50 in
March 52.3°F 18.9°F 0.66 in 52.1°F 22.7°F 0.35 in
April 59.7°F 23.2°F 0.57 in 58.3°F 27.0°F 0.56 in
May 69.3°F 31.4°F 0.68 in 67.9°F 34.5°F 0.73 in
June 81.5°F 38.8°F 0.42 in 79.2°F 41.5°F 0.79 in
July 86.1°F 46.6°F 1.40 in 81.9°F 48.2°F 1.51 in
August 83.2°F 44.4°F 1.72 in 79.3°F 47.4°F 1.29 in
September 76.5°F 35.4°F 1.27 in 73.6°F 39.4°F 1.04 in
October 64.3°F 24.9°F 1.18 in 62.8°F 28.4°F 0.94 in
November 50.3°F 15.5°F 0.67 in 49.1°F 17.6°F 0.50 in
December 39.0°F 7.3°F 0.52 in 38.6°F 8.9°F 0.41 in

Cities that consider Panguitch their climate twin

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