Climate twins of Goldsmith, TX

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Goldsmith'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
Hatch, NM
similarity distance: 1.410 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Horizon City, TX
similarity distance: 1.416 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
El Paso, TX
similarity distance: 1.416 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Goldsmith vs its climate twin

Top match: Hatch, NM

Month Goldsmith Hatch
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 58.1°F 31.7°F 0.61 in 58.7°F 28.7°F 0.49 in
February 63.2°F 35.4°F 0.57 in 64.5°F 31.9°F 0.51 in
March 71.2°F 43.1°F 0.73 in 71.9°F 38.5°F 0.25 in
April 79.5°F 51.2°F 0.65 in 79.2°F 45.1°F 0.32 in
May 87.7°F 60.8°F 1.62 in 87.6°F 54.1°F 0.41 in
June 94.5°F 68.9°F 1.27 in 97.4°F 63.4°F 0.69 in
July 95.3°F 71.5°F 1.53 in 97.5°F 69.0°F 1.88 in
August 94.2°F 70.6°F 1.48 in 95.0°F 67.2°F 2.01 in
September 86.7°F 63.2°F 1.94 in 89.4°F 59.4°F 1.80 in
October 78.2°F 52.8°F 1.25 in 80.2°F 47.2°F 1.01 in
November 66.8°F 40.4°F 0.72 in 68.2°F 36.4°F 0.60 in
December 58.4°F 32.4°F 0.56 in 58.3°F 28.7°F 0.66 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 →