Climate twins of Hereford, TX

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

Top match: Sublette, KS

Month Hereford Sublette
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.1°F 22.5°F 0.64 in 49.0°F 20.0°F 0.44 in
February 55.5°F 25.3°F 0.45 in 53.5°F 23.2°F 0.36 in
March 64.3°F 32.4°F 1.22 in 63.3°F 31.4°F 1.09 in
April 72.4°F 39.7°F 1.09 in 71.7°F 39.2°F 1.60 in
May 81.1°F 50.3°F 2.09 in 80.6°F 49.8°F 2.28 in
June 90.2°F 60.6°F 3.34 in 90.4°F 60.0°F 2.96 in
July 92.4°F 64.8°F 2.34 in 94.4°F 64.7°F 2.72 in
August 90.7°F 63.5°F 3.04 in 92.0°F 63.1°F 2.69 in
September 83.5°F 55.8°F 1.86 in 85.9°F 55.1°F 1.30 in
October 72.6°F 43.3°F 1.85 in 74.1°F 42.0°F 1.64 in
November 60.3°F 31.3°F 0.69 in 60.1°F 29.9°F 0.58 in
December 51.1°F 23.8°F 0.72 in 49.2°F 22.1°F 0.64 in

Cities that consider Hereford their climate twin

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

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 →