Climate twins of San Luis, CO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches San Luis'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: San Luis vs its climate twin
Top match: Lyman, UT
| Month | San Luis | Lyman | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 37.0°F | 6.3°F | 0.38 in | 39.6°F | 9.5°F | 0.39 in |
| February | 41.3°F | 12.1°F | 0.50 in | 42.6°F | 13.7°F | 0.45 in |
| March | 52.1°F | 22.7°F | 0.35 in | 51.2°F | 20.4°F | 0.51 in |
| April | 58.3°F | 27.0°F | 0.56 in | 58.0°F | 26.2°F | 0.50 in |
| May | 67.9°F | 34.5°F | 0.73 in | 67.3°F | 34.8°F | 0.75 in |
| June | 79.2°F | 41.5°F | 0.79 in | 78.3°F | 42.7°F | 0.57 in |
| July | 81.9°F | 48.2°F | 1.51 in | 83.5°F | 50.2°F | 1.34 in |
| August | 79.3°F | 47.4°F | 1.29 in | 81.3°F | 48.2°F | 1.37 in |
| September | 73.6°F | 39.4°F | 1.04 in | 74.7°F | 38.8°F | 0.98 in |
| October | 62.8°F | 28.4°F | 0.94 in | 62.7°F | 27.2°F | 0.84 in |
| November | 49.1°F | 17.6°F | 0.50 in | 50.3°F | 17.6°F | 0.29 in |
| December | 38.6°F | 8.9°F | 0.41 in | 39.7°F | 9.3°F | 0.42 in |
Cities that consider San Luis their climate twin
These US cities have San Luis in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, San Luis would feel familiar.
- Lyman, UT (ranks San Luis #1)
- Bicknell, UT (ranks San Luis #1)
- Loa, UT (ranks San Luis #1)
- Antimony, UT (ranks San Luis #1)
- Panguitch, UT (ranks San Luis #1)
- Koosharem, UT (ranks San Luis #2)
- Hatch, UT (ranks San Luis #2)
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 →