Climate twins of Virginia City, MT

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Virginia City'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.

Rank 1 closest
Hobson, MT
similarity distance: 0.770 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Denton, MT
similarity distance: 0.824 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Dutton, MT
similarity distance: 0.839 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Virginia City vs its climate twin

Top match: Hobson, MT

Month Virginia City Hobson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 36.9°F 15.0°F 0.67 in 36.9°F 12.9°F 0.46 in
February 38.9°F 15.4°F 0.59 in 37.6°F 13.5°F 0.38 in
March 47.2°F 22.1°F 0.93 in 45.3°F 20.2°F 0.64 in
April 54.3°F 28.5°F 1.75 in 53.3°F 27.9°F 1.43 in
May 64.2°F 36.6°F 2.37 in 62.4°F 37.2°F 2.64 in
June 72.6°F 43.1°F 2.74 in 70.7°F 44.8°F 2.74 in
July 82.6°F 49.8°F 1.33 in 81.7°F 50.3°F 1.63 in
August 81.3°F 48.6°F 1.14 in 81.8°F 49.7°F 1.68 in
September 71.4°F 41.2°F 1.19 in 70.9°F 41.4°F 1.48 in
October 57.6°F 31.4°F 1.35 in 57.4°F 30.5°F 1.12 in
November 43.8°F 21.3°F 0.82 in 45.0°F 20.8°F 0.52 in
December 35.3°F 13.9°F 0.77 in 37.1°F 13.5°F 0.42 in

Cities that consider Virginia City their climate twin

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