Climate twins of Sheridan, CO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Sheridan'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: Sheridan vs its climate twin
Top match: Yoder, WY
| Month | Sheridan | Yoder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 45.8°F | 19.3°F | 0.48 in | 44.3°F | 16.8°F | 0.33 in |
| February | 46.5°F | 20.3°F | 0.67 in | 45.7°F | 17.1°F | 0.49 in |
| March | 54.6°F | 28.1°F | 1.19 in | 55.7°F | 24.0°F | 0.96 in |
| April | 60.1°F | 34.5°F | 2.07 in | 62.7°F | 30.8°F | 1.80 in |
| May | 69.0°F | 43.8°F | 2.73 in | 72.0°F | 40.8°F | 3.24 in |
| June | 80.8°F | 53.4°F | 1.87 in | 84.1°F | 49.9°F | 1.89 in |
| July | 86.4°F | 59.5°F | 2.05 in | 91.8°F | 56.2°F | 1.60 in |
| August | 85.0°F | 57.5°F | 1.85 in | 88.9°F | 53.7°F | 1.08 in |
| September | 77.2°F | 48.7°F | 1.26 in | 81.3°F | 45.0°F | 1.32 in |
| October | 64.2°F | 36.7°F | 1.04 in | 66.5°F | 32.9°F | 1.24 in |
| November | 53.4°F | 27.7°F | 0.74 in | 53.0°F | 23.6°F | 0.59 in |
| December | 45.4°F | 20.2°F | 0.61 in | 43.2°F | 16.1°F | 0.45 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 →