Climate twins of Wright, WY

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

Top match: Joliet, MT

Month Wright Joliet
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.4°F 13.3°F 0.39 in 35.9°F 9.8°F 0.53 in
February 36.3°F 13.8°F 0.50 in 38.6°F 12.0°F 0.57 in
March 46.6°F 22.1°F 0.90 in 49.0°F 19.1°F 0.84 in
April 54.1°F 28.7°F 1.62 in 56.5°F 26.6°F 1.89 in
May 63.8°F 38.0°F 2.73 in 65.7°F 36.3°F 2.67 in
June 75.8°F 46.9°F 2.03 in 75.8°F 44.3°F 2.11 in
July 85.7°F 54.1°F 1.54 in 85.7°F 49.9°F 0.94 in
August 84.6°F 52.5°F 0.88 in 84.3°F 47.9°F 0.88 in
September 73.7°F 43.3°F 1.01 in 73.7°F 39.3°F 1.26 in
October 57.9°F 31.1°F 1.37 in 58.8°F 28.6°F 1.57 in
November 44.1°F 21.3°F 0.55 in 45.3°F 18.9°F 0.70 in
December 34.5°F 13.2°F 0.42 in 35.8°F 11.1°F 0.58 in

Cities that consider Wright their climate twin

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