Climate twins of Benson, AZ

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Benson'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
Sunland Park, NM
similarity distance: 1.070 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Williamsburg, NM
similarity distance: 1.087 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Elephant Butte, NM
similarity distance: 1.087 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Benson vs its climate twin

Top match: Sunland Park, NM

Month Benson Sunland Park
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 64.7°F 27.1°F 0.80 in 57.7°F 29.6°F 0.51 in
February 68.0°F 30.1°F 0.63 in 63.0°F 32.6°F 0.53 in
March 74.4°F 35.3°F 0.57 in 71.1°F 39.3°F 0.26 in
April 81.4°F 41.0°F 0.19 in 78.6°F 46.6°F 0.20 in
May 89.7°F 48.7°F 0.17 in 87.0°F 55.6°F 0.39 in
June 99.0°F 57.7°F 0.29 in 95.9°F 65.0°F 0.82 in
July 97.5°F 65.9°F 2.65 in 94.7°F 68.7°F 2.31 in
August 95.2°F 64.8°F 2.79 in 93.1°F 67.9°F 1.73 in
September 92.0°F 58.1°F 1.64 in 87.5°F 62.1°F 1.49 in
October 84.2°F 45.1°F 0.65 in 78.5°F 50.0°F 0.75 in
November 73.3°F 33.6°F 0.51 in 66.3°F 37.2°F 0.47 in
December 64.4°F 26.9°F 0.88 in 56.5°F 29.8°F 0.65 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 →