Climate twins of Buffalo, TX

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

Top match: Howe, TX

Month Buffalo Howe
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.5°F 35.1°F 3.47 in 52.6°F 33.9°F 2.52 in
February 63.4°F 38.9°F 3.22 in 57.1°F 37.2°F 2.76 in
March 70.3°F 45.2°F 3.90 in 65.2°F 45.0°F 3.96 in
April 77.5°F 52.4°F 3.11 in 72.6°F 52.8°F 3.87 in
May 84.1°F 61.7°F 4.65 in 80.0°F 61.6°F 5.54 in
June 90.5°F 69.1°F 4.00 in 88.1°F 69.8°F 4.54 in
July 94.0°F 71.7°F 2.47 in 92.5°F 73.5°F 2.90 in
August 94.9°F 71.0°F 2.71 in 92.7°F 73.0°F 2.88 in
September 89.1°F 64.8°F 3.22 in 85.4°F 66.1°F 3.43 in
October 80.1°F 53.5°F 4.22 in 75.3°F 55.1°F 4.77 in
November 69.2°F 44.0°F 3.63 in 63.3°F 44.1°F 3.50 in
December 60.7°F 36.9°F 3.81 in 54.2°F 36.1°F 3.62 in

Cities that consider Buffalo their climate twin

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