Climate twins of Superior, WY
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Superior'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: Superior vs its climate twin
Top match: Moore, ID
| Month | Superior | Moore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 29.5°F | 13.6°F | 0.38 in | 30.3°F | 7.0°F | 0.67 in |
| February | 32.9°F | 15.7°F | 0.37 in | 34.7°F | 11.7°F | 0.62 in |
| March | 43.9°F | 24.1°F | 0.58 in | 45.9°F | 22.8°F | 0.68 in |
| April | 52.8°F | 29.7°F | 0.91 in | 57.2°F | 30.4°F | 0.86 in |
| May | 63.2°F | 38.4°F | 1.27 in | 67.0°F | 38.6°F | 1.20 in |
| June | 75.0°F | 47.0°F | 0.70 in | 76.4°F | 45.7°F | 1.13 in |
| July | 84.1°F | 54.8°F | 0.47 in | 86.6°F | 51.6°F | 0.32 in |
| August | 81.5°F | 53.1°F | 0.56 in | 84.8°F | 49.5°F | 0.54 in |
| September | 70.7°F | 43.9°F | 0.79 in | 74.9°F | 41.0°F | 0.66 in |
| October | 56.0°F | 32.9°F | 0.81 in | 59.5°F | 30.5°F | 0.71 in |
| November | 40.5°F | 21.8°F | 0.40 in | 42.6°F | 19.1°F | 0.55 in |
| December | 29.5°F | 13.4°F | 0.31 in | 31.2°F | 9.3°F | 0.86 in |
Cities that consider Superior their climate twin
These US cities have Superior in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Superior would feel familiar.
- Arco, ID (ranks Superior #2)
- Butte City, ID (ranks Superior #2)
- Moore, ID (ranks Superior #2)
- Powell, WY (ranks Superior #1)
- Challis, ID (ranks Superior #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 →