Climate twins of El Paso, TX
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches El Paso'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: El Paso vs its climate twin
Top match: Toyah, TX
| Month | El Paso | Toyah | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 58.6°F | 34.5°F | 0.39 in | 61.7°F | 29.8°F | 0.80 in |
| February | 64.1°F | 38.9°F | 0.40 in | 66.8°F | 33.2°F | 0.33 in |
| March | 71.9°F | 45.5°F | 0.24 in | 74.9°F | 41.3°F | 0.48 in |
| April | 80.0°F | 53.3°F | 0.17 in | 83.7°F | 48.5°F | 0.22 in |
| May | 88.7°F | 62.1°F | 0.43 in | 91.8°F | 57.3°F | 1.01 in |
| June | 97.1°F | 70.6°F | 0.73 in | 98.0°F | 67.0°F | 0.93 in |
| July | 95.8°F | 73.0°F | 1.58 in | 97.6°F | 69.0°F | 1.48 in |
| August | 94.0°F | 71.8°F | 1.67 in | 97.4°F | 68.6°F | 1.05 in |
| September | 88.3°F | 65.4°F | 1.52 in | 90.0°F | 61.8°F | 1.94 in |
| October | 79.4°F | 54.0°F | 0.59 in | 81.2°F | 50.8°F | 0.97 in |
| November | 67.0°F | 42.0°F | 0.43 in | 69.1°F | 37.3°F | 0.52 in |
| December | 57.8°F | 34.4°F | 0.63 in | 61.9°F | 31.4°F | 0.35 in |
Cities that consider El Paso their climate twin
These US cities have El Paso in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, El Paso would feel familiar.
- Town of Pecos, TX (ranks El Paso #3)
- Barstow, TX (ranks El Paso #3)
- Toyah, TX (ranks El Paso #3)
- Pima, AZ (ranks El Paso #3)
- Thatcher, AZ (ranks El Paso #3)
- Safford, AZ (ranks El Paso #3)
- Monahans, TX (ranks El Paso #3)
- Wink, TX (ranks El Paso #3)
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 →