Climate twins of Elida, NM

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

Top match: Keyes, OK

Month	Elida			Keyes
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	54.3°F	24.7°F	0.64 in	51.8°F	20.4°F	0.50 in
February	59.4°F	27.7°F	0.29 in	55.7°F	22.6°F	0.36 in
March	67.7°F	34.2°F	0.73 in	64.2°F	29.5°F	1.10 in
April	76.0°F	40.9°F	0.67 in	71.5°F	37.6°F	1.40 in
May	83.7°F	50.7°F	1.39 in	80.4°F	47.3°F	1.82 in
June	92.0°F	60.1°F	1.96 in	90.1°F	57.9°F	2.28 in
July	91.8°F	64.0°F	3.36 in	93.8°F	62.8°F	3.12 in
August	90.5°F	62.6°F	2.98 in	90.8°F	61.5°F	3.23 in
September	84.3°F	55.4°F	1.91 in	84.6°F	53.8°F	1.75 in
October	75.8°F	44.2°F	1.54 in	73.5°F	40.4°F	1.48 in
November	62.3°F	33.0°F	0.63 in	61.4°F	29.3°F	0.56 in
December	54.1°F	25.9°F	0.57 in	51.3°F	21.7°F	0.74 in

Cities that consider Elida their climate twin

These US cities have Elida in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Elida would feel familiar.

Bayard, NM (ranks Elida #3)
Hurley, NM (ranks Elida #3)
Santa Clara, NM (ranks Elida #3)
Silver City, NM (ranks Elida #3)
Bisbee, AZ (ranks Elida #2)

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 →