Climate twins of Aztec, NM

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

Top match: Caliente, NV

Month	Aztec			Caliente
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	46.0°F	17.1°F	0.90 in	48.5°F	18.6°F	0.86 in
February	52.5°F	21.5°F	0.75 in	53.4°F	22.5°F	0.99 in
March	62.8°F	27.0°F	0.77 in	62.1°F	28.2°F	1.20 in
April	70.6°F	32.7°F	0.69 in	68.7°F	33.8°F	0.58 in
May	79.8°F	41.0°F	0.71 in	78.7°F	42.1°F	0.68 in
June	90.3°F	49.7°F	0.28 in	90.0°F	49.7°F	0.39 in
July	93.9°F	58.2°F	0.96 in	96.5°F	57.2°F	0.69 in
August	91.2°F	56.9°F	1.32 in	94.2°F	55.4°F	0.86 in
September	84.2°F	48.5°F	1.13 in	86.8°F	46.1°F	0.49 in
October	71.7°F	35.7°F	0.94 in	73.7°F	34.2°F	0.75 in
November	57.7°F	25.3°F	0.94 in	59.9°F	23.6°F	0.55 in
December	46.4°F	17.8°F	0.67 in	48.1°F	17.9°F	0.81 in

Cities that consider Aztec their climate twin

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

Caliente, NV (ranks Aztec #2)
Fruita, CO (ranks Aztec #3)
St. Johns, AZ (ranks Aztec #1)

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 →