Climate twins of Estancia, NM

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Estancia'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.

Rank 1 closest
Gallup, NM
similarity distance: 1.096 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Grenville, NM
similarity distance: 1.314 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Boulder, UT
similarity distance: 1.387 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Estancia vs its climate twin

Top match: Gallup, NM

Month Estancia Gallup
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 48.3°F 15.2°F 0.53 in 43.8°F 16.3°F 0.91 in
February 53.4°F 18.4°F 0.36 in 48.1°F 20.4°F 0.86 in
March 61.9°F 24.2°F 0.59 in 56.7°F 24.4°F 0.85 in
April 69.3°F 30.6°F 0.49 in 64.6°F 31.5°F 0.60 in
May 78.5°F 38.9°F 1.16 in 73.7°F 40.2°F 0.66 in
June 89.0°F 47.2°F 1.19 in 84.7°F 49.4°F 0.34 in
July 89.8°F 54.3°F 2.36 in 87.2°F 57.0°F 2.02 in
August 87.4°F 52.3°F 2.36 in 84.3°F 55.3°F 2.36 in
September 81.8°F 44.6°F 1.77 in 78.7°F 46.8°F 1.22 in
October 71.3°F 33.0°F 1.37 in 67.5°F 34.0°F 1.06 in
November 58.9°F 21.9°F 0.69 in 54.7°F 24.1°F 0.77 in
December 48.5°F 14.9°F 0.69 in 44.1°F 16.1°F 0.87 in

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 →