Climate twins of Big Lake, TX
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Big Lake'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: Big Lake vs its climate twin
Top match: Loving, NM
| Month | Big Lake | Loving | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 60.4°F | 33.4°F | 1.03 in | 58.7°F | 30.0°F | 0.56 in |
| February | 65.3°F | 36.8°F | 0.79 in | 64.0°F | 34.0°F | 0.45 in |
| March | 72.9°F | 44.6°F | 0.97 in | 71.8°F | 40.7°F | 0.54 in |
| April | 81.5°F | 51.7°F | 1.47 in | 80.1°F | 48.3°F | 0.45 in |
| May | 87.7°F | 60.6°F | 1.84 in | 88.0°F | 57.9°F | 0.99 in |
| June | 92.6°F | 68.7°F | 2.05 in | 96.6°F | 67.0°F | 1.07 in |
| July | 94.3°F | 71.1°F | 2.10 in | 96.5°F | 70.7°F | 2.03 in |
| August | 95.0°F | 70.1°F | 1.77 in | 95.3°F | 69.4°F | 1.63 in |
| September | 88.6°F | 63.0°F | 2.34 in | 88.4°F | 62.3°F | 2.49 in |
| October | 80.1°F | 53.7°F | 1.60 in | 79.7°F | 50.2°F | 1.01 in |
| November | 69.1°F | 42.2°F | 1.35 in | 67.8°F | 38.2°F | 0.66 in |
| December | 61.2°F | 35.2°F | 0.87 in | 58.6°F | 30.7°F | 0.67 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 →