Climate twins of Eagle Nest, NM

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

Top match: Lake City, CO

Month Eagle Nest Lake City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.6°F 4.7°F 0.60 in 33.8°F 1.1°F 0.83 in
February 41.8°F 10.0°F 0.95 in 37.7°F 7.9°F 0.65 in
March 49.1°F 17.9°F 1.26 in 46.2°F 16.8°F 0.76 in
April 56.2°F 24.2°F 1.49 in 53.4°F 24.7°F 1.02 in
May 65.7°F 31.8°F 1.25 in 64.8°F 32.7°F 1.06 in
June 76.5°F 38.1°F 1.13 in 73.9°F 40.3°F 0.71 in
July 78.8°F 44.3°F 2.89 in 76.7°F 46.7°F 2.12 in
August 76.8°F 43.2°F 2.81 in 73.7°F 45.3°F 2.45 in
September 71.8°F 35.4°F 1.62 in 69.1°F 37.6°F 1.56 in
October 61.6°F 25.1°F 1.34 in 59.7°F 27.8°F 1.27 in
November 48.8°F 15.4°F 0.92 in 46.1°F 14.9°F 0.88 in
December 39.1°F 6.4°F 0.94 in 34.0°F 3.0°F 0.96 in

Cities that consider Eagle Nest their climate twin

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