Climate twins of Pritchett, CO

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

Top match: St. Francis, KS

Month Pritchett St. Francis
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 47.8°F 17.2°F 0.30 in 43.4°F 15.3°F 0.38 in
February 49.8°F 19.3°F 0.32 in 46.1°F 17.6°F 0.44 in
March 59.0°F 26.6°F 0.91 in 56.5°F 26.3°F 0.72 in
April 66.1°F 34.4°F 1.33 in 64.5°F 34.8°F 1.63 in
May 75.8°F 44.8°F 1.75 in 74.1°F 45.9°F 2.43 in
June 87.0°F 55.4°F 1.85 in 86.2°F 57.1°F 2.42 in
July 90.5°F 60.6°F 2.81 in 91.7°F 62.6°F 2.89 in
August 87.8°F 59.3°F 2.53 in 89.3°F 60.3°F 2.92 in
September 81.0°F 51.1°F 1.38 in 81.5°F 50.3°F 1.49 in
October 68.8°F 36.9°F 1.02 in 67.9°F 35.9°F 1.29 in
November 56.7°F 25.3°F 0.43 in 54.5°F 24.4°F 0.50 in
December 46.8°F 17.9°F 0.58 in 44.5°F 16.2°F 0.45 in

Cities that consider Pritchett their climate twin

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