Climate twins of Silver Cliff, CO

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

Top match: Estes Park, CO

Month Silver Cliff Estes Park
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 39.6°F 8.3°F 0.48 in 37.1°F 16.1°F 0.82 in
February 41.7°F 12.1°F 0.58 in 37.5°F 15.8°F 0.68 in
March 49.6°F 19.6°F 1.06 in 45.0°F 21.2°F 1.58 in
April 56.4°F 25.7°F 1.56 in 51.5°F 26.1°F 2.26 in
May 65.8°F 33.3°F 1.41 in 61.2°F 34.7°F 2.27 in
June 76.9°F 40.6°F 0.79 in 73.9°F 42.6°F 1.37 in
July 80.6°F 44.9°F 2.66 in 80.2°F 48.2°F 2.55 in
August 78.0°F 44.1°F 1.98 in 77.7°F 46.4°F 1.71 in
September 72.4°F 37.0°F 0.90 in 69.6°F 39.2°F 1.65 in
October 61.3°F 26.1°F 0.95 in 56.6°F 30.2°F 1.12 in
November 48.9°F 16.7°F 0.69 in 44.1°F 23.5°F 0.74 in
December 39.8°F 8.0°F 0.53 in 36.2°F 16.4°F 0.67 in

Cities that consider Silver Cliff their climate twin

These US cities have Silver Cliff in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Silver Cliff 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 →