Climate twins of Andrews, TX

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Andrews'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
Van Horn, TX
similarity distance: 1.475 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Columbus, NM
similarity distance: 1.625 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Hatch, NM
similarity distance: 1.631 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Andrews vs its climate twin

Top match: Van Horn, TX

Month Andrews Van Horn
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.5°F 31.3°F 0.63 in 59.1°F 30.0°F 0.47 in
February 64.8°F 35.3°F 0.62 in 64.2°F 33.8°F 0.44 in
March 72.5°F 42.1°F 0.72 in 71.6°F 40.6°F 0.25 in
April 81.7°F 49.3°F 0.56 in 78.8°F 47.9°F 0.22 in
May 88.9°F 59.7°F 1.32 in 86.6°F 57.3°F 0.49 in
June 95.3°F 67.1°F 2.38 in 94.5°F 66.4°F 1.10 in
July 95.6°F 69.3°F 1.71 in 92.9°F 68.3°F 2.05 in
August 94.7°F 68.6°F 1.55 in 91.9°F 67.1°F 1.95 in
September 88.4°F 61.8°F 1.93 in 85.9°F 60.6°F 1.50 in
October 79.9°F 51.6°F 1.31 in 78.7°F 49.8°F 0.94 in
November 68.2°F 39.4°F 0.55 in 68.1°F 38.3°F 0.42 in
December 60.1°F 32.3°F 0.69 in 59.2°F 30.9°F 0.49 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 →