Climate twins of Crystal City, TX

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Crystal City'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
Palmhurst, TX
similarity distance: 1.237 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
La Joya, TX
similarity distance: 1.237 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Alton, TX
similarity distance: 1.237 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Crystal City vs its climate twin

Top match: Palmhurst, TX

Month Crystal City Palmhurst
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 66.8°F 43.9°F 1.04 in 69.1°F 46.8°F 0.82 in
February 72.2°F 48.5°F 0.85 in 74.0°F 51.2°F 0.86 in
March 78.9°F 55.1°F 1.70 in 79.3°F 57.4°F 1.40 in
April 86.1°F 61.8°F 1.31 in 84.9°F 62.7°F 1.66 in
May 91.1°F 69.6°F 2.23 in 89.9°F 69.8°F 1.87 in
June 96.4°F 74.6°F 2.07 in 94.6°F 74.2°F 1.95 in
July 97.3°F 75.5°F 2.07 in 95.1°F 75.0°F 2.23 in
August 99.1°F 75.8°F 1.92 in 96.7°F 75.1°F 1.20 in
September 92.9°F 71.5°F 2.43 in 92.1°F 71.1°F 3.50 in
October 85.0°F 63.6°F 2.00 in 86.5°F 63.6°F 2.20 in
November 74.1°F 53.2°F 1.00 in 78.0°F 55.3°F 1.05 in
December 67.7°F 45.1°F 0.84 in 70.7°F 48.1°F 1.42 in

Cities that consider Crystal City their climate twin

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