Climate twins of Saguache, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Saguache'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.

Rank 1 closest
Lyman, UT
similarity distance: 0.792 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Loa, UT
similarity distance: 0.792 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Bicknell, UT
similarity distance: 0.792 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Saguache vs its climate twin

Top match: Lyman, UT

Month Saguache Lyman
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.5°F 7.0°F 0.20 in 39.6°F 9.5°F 0.39 in
February 41.2°F 11.4°F 0.26 in 42.6°F 13.7°F 0.45 in
March 51.1°F 21.5°F 0.39 in 51.2°F 20.4°F 0.51 in
April 59.3°F 26.9°F 0.70 in 58.0°F 26.2°F 0.50 in
May 68.0°F 36.4°F 0.53 in 67.3°F 34.8°F 0.75 in
June 77.5°F 43.6°F 0.62 in 78.3°F 42.7°F 0.57 in
July 80.2°F 49.6°F 1.29 in 83.5°F 50.2°F 1.34 in
August 78.7°F 48.7°F 1.86 in 81.3°F 48.2°F 1.37 in
September 73.4°F 40.4°F 0.99 in 74.7°F 38.8°F 0.98 in
October 62.1°F 29.7°F 0.66 in 62.7°F 27.2°F 0.84 in
November 48.7°F 19.6°F 0.58 in 50.3°F 17.6°F 0.29 in
December 35.9°F 7.5°F 0.31 in 39.7°F 9.3°F 0.42 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 →