Climate twins of Dalhart, TX

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

Top match: Dora, NM

Month Dalhart Dora
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 48.8°F 20.3°F 0.55 in 54.4°F 20.8°F 0.53 in
February 53.5°F 24.1°F 0.38 in 59.1°F 23.5°F 0.42 in
March 62.6°F 30.4°F 1.08 in 67.3°F 31.2°F 0.88 in
April 70.4°F 39.2°F 1.36 in 74.4°F 38.3°F 0.86 in
May 79.1°F 48.4°F 1.91 in 82.2°F 48.3°F 1.53 in
June 89.5°F 59.3°F 2.23 in 91.5°F 59.5°F 1.89 in
July 93.3°F 64.4°F 2.57 in 92.8°F 63.3°F 2.63 in
August 91.3°F 62.4°F 2.83 in 91.3°F 61.5°F 2.82 in
September 84.0°F 54.8°F 1.47 in 84.1°F 54.0°F 2.39 in
October 72.5°F 42.1°F 1.72 in 75.2°F 41.1°F 1.53 in
November 60.6°F 30.1°F 0.61 in 63.0°F 29.1°F 0.54 in
December 50.0°F 22.4°F 0.82 in 54.5°F 21.6°F 0.65 in

Cities that consider Dalhart their climate twin

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