Climate twins of Alamogordo, NM

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

Top match: Balmorhea, TX

Month	Alamogordo			Balmorhea
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	54.8°F	33.2°F	0.68 in	60.3°F	31.0°F	0.66 in
February	60.1°F	37.3°F	0.59 in	65.6°F	34.1°F	0.41 in
March	67.6°F	42.9°F	0.33 in	72.8°F	40.3°F	0.38 in
April	75.8°F	50.5°F	0.27 in	80.5°F	47.3°F	0.50 in
May	84.8°F	58.6°F	0.46 in	87.9°F	57.2°F	1.05 in
June	94.0°F	68.1°F	0.56 in	94.7°F	65.9°F	1.13 in
July	92.6°F	69.8°F	1.62 in	93.7°F	67.7°F	1.82 in
August	91.1°F	67.8°F	1.96 in	93.0°F	66.7°F	1.87 in
September	85.5°F	62.6°F	1.49 in	86.5°F	60.2°F	2.02 in
October	75.4°F	51.3°F	1.01 in	79.4°F	49.6°F	1.09 in
November	63.6°F	40.6°F	0.56 in	69.2°F	38.1°F	0.60 in
December	54.1°F	32.6°F	1.10 in	60.9°F	31.3°F	0.57 in

Cities that consider Alamogordo their climate twin

These US cities have Alamogordo in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Alamogordo would feel familiar.

Balmorhea, TX (ranks Alamogordo #1)
Lordsburg, NM (ranks Alamogordo #3)
Kermit, TX (ranks Alamogordo #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 →