Climate twins of Salida, CO

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Salida'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: 0.930 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Loa, UT
similarity distance: 0.930 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Bicknell, UT
similarity distance: 0.930 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Salida vs its climate twin

Top match: Lyman, UT

Month Salida Lyman
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.4°F 11.5°F 0.31 in 39.6°F 9.5°F 0.39 in
February 45.5°F 14.8°F 0.27 in 42.6°F 13.7°F 0.45 in
March 54.0°F 21.0°F 0.69 in 51.2°F 20.4°F 0.51 in
April 60.3°F 27.7°F 1.05 in 58.0°F 26.2°F 0.50 in
May 70.2°F 34.6°F 0.96 in 67.3°F 34.8°F 0.75 in
June 82.0°F 43.4°F 0.50 in 78.3°F 42.7°F 0.57 in
July 85.8°F 49.1°F 1.36 in 83.5°F 50.2°F 1.34 in
August 83.1°F 47.2°F 1.46 in 81.3°F 48.2°F 1.37 in
September 77.0°F 38.9°F 0.67 in 74.7°F 38.8°F 0.98 in
October 65.4°F 28.9°F 0.87 in 62.7°F 27.2°F 0.84 in
November 52.7°F 19.5°F 0.25 in 50.3°F 17.6°F 0.29 in
December 43.2°F 12.6°F 0.38 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 →