Climate twins of Belton, TX

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

Top match: Rhome, TX

Month Belton Rhome
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 60.0°F 35.7°F 2.55 in 56.2°F 33.2°F 2.09 in
February 64.3°F 39.2°F 2.29 in 60.1°F 36.4°F 2.47 in
March 70.5°F 46.2°F 3.26 in 68.1°F 44.3°F 3.69 in
April 77.8°F 54.0°F 3.10 in 75.7°F 52.5°F 3.23 in
May 84.5°F 62.6°F 4.85 in 82.7°F 62.2°F 4.86 in
June 91.1°F 69.6°F 3.43 in 90.8°F 70.4°F 4.39 in
July 95.2°F 72.1°F 1.85 in 95.4°F 74.1°F 2.52 in
August 96.0°F 71.8°F 2.46 in 94.9°F 73.2°F 2.58 in
September 90.0°F 65.8°F 3.74 in 88.5°F 64.9°F 3.62 in
October 80.8°F 55.7°F 4.00 in 78.6°F 53.7°F 4.14 in
November 69.4°F 45.6°F 2.64 in 66.9°F 43.0°F 2.72 in
December 61.4°F 38.1°F 2.80 in 58.0°F 35.1°F 2.58 in

Cities that consider Belton their climate twin

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