Climate twins of Platteville, CO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Platteville'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: Platteville vs its climate twin
Top match: Walsenburg, CO
| Month | Platteville | Walsenburg | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 44.5°F | 14.4°F | 0.56 in | 47.3°F | 20.7°F | 0.83 in |
| February | 46.8°F | 17.1°F | 0.57 in | 49.3°F | 21.5°F | 0.82 in |
| March | 56.8°F | 26.1°F | 1.17 in | 57.1°F | 27.2°F | 1.72 in |
| April | 63.2°F | 32.3°F | 2.04 in | 63.4°F | 33.6°F | 2.26 in |
| May | 72.7°F | 41.4°F | 1.97 in | 72.5°F | 42.7°F | 1.82 in |
| June | 83.9°F | 50.5°F | 1.75 in | 83.5°F | 51.8°F | 1.28 in |
| July | 90.8°F | 55.4°F | 1.69 in | 87.4°F | 57.5°F | 2.24 in |
| August | 87.8°F | 53.7°F | 1.95 in | 85.1°F | 56.2°F | 2.15 in |
| September | 80.3°F | 45.8°F | 1.26 in | 79.2°F | 48.0°F | 0.85 in |
| October | 66.2°F | 32.9°F | 1.04 in | 68.4°F | 36.6°F | 1.31 in |
| November | 53.5°F | 23.5°F | 0.75 in | 55.9°F | 27.7°F | 1.00 in |
| December | 44.8°F | 14.5°F | 0.46 in | 46.5°F | 20.4°F | 1.01 in |
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 →