Climate twins of Tusayan, AZ

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

Top match: Mancos, CO

Month Tusayan Mancos
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.9°F 15.8°F 1.23 in 40.0°F 12.4°F 1.38 in
February 46.9°F 17.2°F 1.21 in 43.7°F 17.0°F 1.27 in
March 54.5°F 22.0°F 1.20 in 52.9°F 22.7°F 1.14 in
April 61.2°F 25.3°F 0.69 in 60.8°F 27.8°F 1.04 in
May 70.7°F 31.6°F 0.61 in 69.9°F 34.9°F 1.04 in
June 82.5°F 38.0°F 0.40 in 80.8°F 42.8°F 0.58 in
July 84.9°F 49.0°F 1.66 in 85.0°F 50.5°F 1.64 in
August 82.8°F 49.4°F 2.06 in 82.3°F 49.4°F 1.79 in
September 76.9°F 40.4°F 1.37 in 75.1°F 41.6°F 1.90 in
October 65.6°F 30.0°F 1.34 in 63.9°F 31.0°F 1.42 in
November 53.8°F 20.8°F 0.77 in 51.0°F 21.5°F 1.22 in
December 44.2°F 14.1°F 0.82 in 40.5°F 14.0°F 1.25 in

Cities that consider Tusayan their climate twin

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