Climate twins of Angel Fire, NM

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

Top match: Silver Plume, CO

Month Angel Fire Silver Plume
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.5°F 9.0°F 1.46 in 36.4°F 15.5°F 0.81 in
February 39.8°F 11.6°F 1.54 in 37.7°F 15.3°F 0.90 in
March 47.4°F 19.9°F 1.79 in 44.5°F 21.1°F 1.39 in
April 54.2°F 25.7°F 1.41 in 49.8°F 26.0°F 2.33 in
May 64.0°F 31.9°F 1.77 in 59.6°F 34.6°F 2.13 in
June 74.2°F 38.1°F 1.20 in 71.7°F 42.4°F 1.54 in
July 76.7°F 43.7°F 2.78 in 77.1°F 48.8°F 2.49 in
August 74.7°F 42.1°F 2.73 in 74.5°F 46.5°F 2.18 in
September 68.8°F 36.1°F 1.98 in 68.3°F 39.3°F 1.52 in
October 58.0°F 26.6°F 1.62 in 56.7°F 30.3°F 1.25 in
November 46.1°F 17.6°F 1.08 in 44.2°F 21.9°F 0.89 in
December 37.6°F 11.4°F 1.53 in 36.3°F 15.4°F 0.86 in

Cities that consider Angel Fire their climate twin

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