Climate twins of Pine Bluffs, WY

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

Top match: Hyannis, NE

Month Pine Bluffs Hyannis
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.4°F 17.3°F 0.27 in 36.3°F 16.1°F 0.33 in
February 43.0°F 17.4°F 0.40 in 38.4°F 17.7°F 0.39 in
March 52.3°F 23.5°F 0.89 in 48.5°F 25.9°F 0.98 in
April 58.3°F 30.6°F 1.48 in 56.9°F 33.6°F 2.03 in
May 68.8°F 40.4°F 2.71 in 67.1°F 44.3°F 2.96 in
June 80.2°F 50.4°F 2.52 in 78.1°F 54.5°F 2.77 in
July 87.4°F 56.3°F 2.67 in 84.7°F 60.2°F 3.34 in
August 85.7°F 53.7°F 1.92 in 83.5°F 58.2°F 2.02 in
September 77.2°F 44.5°F 1.39 in 75.3°F 49.1°F 1.61 in
October 63.0°F 33.3°F 1.09 in 60.3°F 36.5°F 1.15 in
November 50.8°F 23.2°F 0.66 in 47.6°F 25.7°F 0.46 in
December 41.1°F 16.5°F 0.34 in 36.9°F 17.8°F 0.27 in

Cities that consider Pine Bluffs their climate twin

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