Climate twins of Bishop, TX

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

Top match: Grey Forest, TX

Month Bishop Grey Forest
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 68.0°F 44.9°F 1.47 in 65.1°F 42.6°F 2.01 in
February 71.1°F 49.4°F 1.57 in 69.7°F 46.4°F 1.84 in
March 77.0°F 55.8°F 1.68 in 76.0°F 52.9°F 2.30 in
April 83.1°F 62.5°F 1.53 in 83.3°F 59.5°F 2.43 in
May 88.3°F 69.1°F 3.32 in 89.1°F 67.1°F 4.02 in
June 92.9°F 73.9°F 2.28 in 94.8°F 72.6°F 3.40 in
July 95.2°F 75.1°F 2.12 in 97.1°F 74.4°F 2.35 in
August 97.1°F 75.3°F 2.68 in 98.5°F 74.4°F 2.52 in
September 91.0°F 71.5°F 5.15 in 92.7°F 70.2°F 3.14 in
October 85.9°F 63.5°F 3.10 in 84.5°F 61.7°F 3.81 in
November 76.6°F 53.4°F 1.68 in 74.3°F 51.1°F 1.90 in
December 70.0°F 46.6°F 2.18 in 65.7°F 44.4°F 1.89 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 →