Climate twins of Pinesdale, MT

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

Top match: Malta, ID

Month	Pinesdale			Malta
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	35.8°F	19.0°F	0.66 in	36.3°F	17.1°F	0.70 in
February	40.6°F	21.2°F	0.64 in	41.5°F	20.3°F	0.41 in
March	49.4°F	26.3°F	0.78 in	52.2°F	24.4°F	0.75 in
April	57.3°F	31.8°F	0.99 in	58.1°F	30.0°F	1.01 in
May	67.0°F	38.8°F	1.55 in	67.8°F	36.5°F	1.46 in
June	74.6°F	44.9°F	1.69 in	77.9°F	42.4°F	0.65 in
July	85.5°F	50.1°F	0.77 in	87.6°F	48.4°F	0.73 in
August	84.0°F	48.0°F	0.84 in	86.5°F	47.6°F	0.92 in
September	73.1°F	41.1°F	0.93 in	76.7°F	39.8°F	0.88 in
October	57.7°F	32.0°F	0.80 in	62.7°F	30.8°F	0.82 in
November	43.0°F	23.7°F	0.92 in	47.5°F	23.0°F	0.58 in
December	34.5°F	17.9°F	0.87 in	36.3°F	16.6°F	0.70 in

Cities that consider Pinesdale their climate twin

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

Malta, ID (ranks Pinesdale #3)
Townsend, MT (ranks Pinesdale #1)

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 →