Climate twins of Elephant Butte, NM
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Elephant Butte'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: Elephant Butte vs its climate twin
Top match: Van Horn, TX
| Month | Elephant Butte | Van Horn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 58.4°F | 27.4°F | 0.41 in | 59.1°F | 30.0°F | 0.47 in |
| February | 64.0°F | 31.4°F | 0.36 in | 64.2°F | 33.8°F | 0.44 in |
| March | 70.9°F | 38.2°F | 0.28 in | 71.6°F | 40.6°F | 0.25 in |
| April | 79.2°F | 44.5°F | 0.23 in | 78.8°F | 47.9°F | 0.22 in |
| May | 87.8°F | 54.1°F | 0.29 in | 86.6°F | 57.3°F | 0.49 in |
| June | 97.3°F | 63.2°F | 0.65 in | 94.5°F | 66.4°F | 1.10 in |
| July | 97.0°F | 67.7°F | 2.16 in | 92.9°F | 68.3°F | 2.05 in |
| August | 94.6°F | 66.0°F | 1.88 in | 91.9°F | 67.1°F | 1.95 in |
| September | 89.1°F | 58.8°F | 1.70 in | 85.9°F | 60.6°F | 1.50 in |
| October | 79.2°F | 47.0°F | 0.93 in | 78.7°F | 49.8°F | 0.94 in |
| November | 67.2°F | 34.8°F | 0.52 in | 68.1°F | 38.3°F | 0.42 in |
| December | 57.4°F | 27.5°F | 0.57 in | 59.2°F | 30.9°F | 0.49 in |
Cities that consider Elephant Butte their climate twin
These US cities have Elephant Butte in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Elephant Butte would feel familiar.
- Van Horn, TX (ranks Elephant Butte #2)
- Benson, AZ (ranks Elephant Butte #3)
- Hope, NM (ranks Elephant Butte #3)
- Jal, NM (ranks Elephant Butte #3)
- Douglas, AZ (ranks Elephant Butte #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 →