Climate twins of Silt, CO

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

Top match: Ferron, UT

Month Silt Ferron
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 36.8°F 13.4°F 0.70 in 36.5°F 14.4°F 0.65 in
February 43.5°F 19.8°F 0.60 in 42.8°F 20.3°F 0.62 in
March 55.4°F 27.0°F 0.76 in 53.6°F 28.7°F 0.60 in
April 62.9°F 32.6°F 1.01 in 61.5°F 35.1°F 0.46 in
May 74.3°F 40.2°F 1.14 in 71.2°F 44.6°F 0.85 in
June 86.4°F 47.9°F 0.68 in 82.9°F 53.6°F 0.49 in
July 92.1°F 55.3°F 0.96 in 88.8°F 60.3°F 0.88 in
August 88.9°F 53.6°F 1.07 in 86.1°F 57.8°F 0.85 in
September 80.0°F 45.0°F 1.34 in 77.8°F 49.2°F 1.13 in
October 65.5°F 33.6°F 1.27 in 64.6°F 36.5°F 1.02 in
November 49.7°F 23.3°F 0.63 in 49.3°F 24.7°F 0.50 in
December 37.3°F 14.0°F 0.57 in 37.3°F 14.9°F 0.56 in

Cities that consider Silt their climate twin

These US cities have Silt in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Silt would feel familiar.

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 →