Climate twins of River Heights, UT

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

Top match: Gypsum, CO

Month River Heights Gypsum
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.2°F 17.6°F 1.83 in 35.5°F 14.8°F 1.66 in
February 36.9°F 21.1°F 1.61 in 42.5°F 20.4°F 1.59 in
March 48.2°F 29.8°F 2.17 in 53.4°F 28.1°F 1.33 in
April 56.5°F 36.0°F 2.26 in 61.5°F 35.1°F 2.34 in
May 66.8°F 44.4°F 2.41 in 71.2°F 43.7°F 2.10 in
June 77.9°F 51.9°F 1.27 in 83.2°F 51.2°F 0.99 in
July 88.2°F 60.2°F 0.57 in 89.2°F 59.3°F 1.03 in
August 86.6°F 58.9°F 0.71 in 86.6°F 57.8°F 1.52 in
September 75.6°F 50.0°F 1.34 in 79.2°F 50.3°F 2.17 in
October 60.7°F 38.7°F 1.83 in 65.1°F 38.0°F 2.08 in
November 45.3°F 28.5°F 1.38 in 48.8°F 27.1°F 1.74 in
December 33.6°F 18.9°F 1.59 in 35.8°F 15.7°F 1.48 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 →