Climate twins of Timnath, CO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Timnath'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: Timnath vs its climate twin
Top match: Laurel, MT
| Month | Timnath | Laurel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 42.6°F | 15.4°F | 0.40 in | 37.2°F | 15.1°F | 0.58 in |
| February | 44.9°F | 18.4°F | 0.42 in | 41.1°F | 17.5°F | 0.60 in |
| March | 55.0°F | 26.4°F | 1.11 in | 51.3°F | 25.1°F | 1.02 in |
| April | 61.1°F | 33.7°F | 2.02 in | 59.2°F | 33.7°F | 1.80 in |
| May | 69.9°F | 43.1°F | 2.54 in | 68.9°F | 42.9°F | 2.45 in |
| June | 81.4°F | 52.0°F | 1.79 in | 79.0°F | 51.4°F | 2.09 in |
| July | 87.6°F | 57.7°F | 1.56 in | 88.7°F | 57.0°F | 1.37 in |
| August | 85.1°F | 55.4°F | 1.34 in | 87.2°F | 54.9°F | 0.80 in |
| September | 77.1°F | 46.7°F | 1.36 in | 75.9°F | 45.7°F | 1.40 in |
| October | 63.4°F | 34.4°F | 1.16 in | 60.7°F | 35.1°F | 1.47 in |
| November | 51.0°F | 23.8°F | 0.70 in | 46.9°F | 23.8°F | 0.63 in |
| December | 42.1°F | 15.5°F | 0.43 in | 37.4°F | 16.6°F | 0.61 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 →