Climate twins of Snowmass Village, CO

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

Top match: Emery, UT

Month Snowmass Village Emery
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.6°F 8.7°F 1.05 in 32.6°F 15.8°F 0.93 in
February 38.0°F 12.4°F 0.90 in 34.7°F 17.7°F 1.03 in
March 46.3°F 20.7°F 1.03 in 43.5°F 23.9°F 1.07 in
April 54.7°F 28.0°F 1.80 in 50.2°F 28.7°F 0.99 in
May 65.0°F 35.1°F 1.52 in 61.1°F 36.6°F 1.22 in
June 77.1°F 42.1°F 0.88 in 73.3°F 45.3°F 0.73 in
July 82.2°F 48.3°F 1.64 in 79.6°F 53.1°F 1.15 in
August 79.5°F 47.2°F 1.48 in 77.0°F 51.1°F 1.49 in
September 72.3°F 39.9°F 1.43 in 68.7°F 42.7°F 1.40 in
October 59.7°F 29.0°F 1.33 in 55.4°F 32.6°F 1.32 in
November 45.2°F 18.7°F 1.04 in 41.1°F 22.3°F 0.97 in
December 34.3°F 9.2°F 0.82 in 31.6°F 15.1°F 1.02 in

Cities that consider Snowmass Village their climate twin

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