Climate twins of Pinedale, WY

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

Top match: Granby, CO

Month Pinedale Granby
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 28.0°F 1.9°F 0.70 in 25.8°F 2.5°F 0.87 in
February 30.7°F 3.9°F 0.76 in 30.5°F 4.5°F 0.84 in
March 40.5°F 14.0°F 0.73 in 39.8°F 13.3°F 0.69 in
April 50.9°F 23.1°F 1.07 in 48.3°F 23.1°F 1.20 in
May 61.4°F 30.2°F 1.89 in 59.4°F 31.4°F 1.62 in
June 71.3°F 37.7°F 1.36 in 70.1°F 38.1°F 1.18 in
July 79.9°F 42.8°F 0.88 in 74.8°F 44.1°F 1.62 in
August 78.3°F 40.0°F 0.96 in 72.7°F 42.8°F 1.68 in
September 69.2°F 32.5°F 1.21 in 66.9°F 35.8°F 1.46 in
October 55.2°F 23.8°F 0.93 in 54.7°F 27.1°F 1.05 in
November 39.7°F 12.8°F 0.64 in 39.5°F 17.8°F 0.72 in
December 28.6°F 3.4°F 0.74 in 28.0°F 7.8°F 0.82 in

Cities that consider Pinedale their climate twin

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