Climate twins of Hillsboro, TX

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

Top match: Moulton, TX

Month Hillsboro Moulton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.0°F 33.9°F 2.74 in 62.0°F 39.9°F 2.80 in
February 62.7°F 37.8°F 2.77 in 65.9°F 43.5°F 2.12 in
March 69.5°F 44.9°F 3.57 in 72.0°F 49.4°F 2.94 in
April 77.1°F 53.0°F 3.68 in 78.8°F 56.9°F 3.31 in
May 84.1°F 62.1°F 4.51 in 85.1°F 64.1°F 4.43 in
June 91.5°F 70.0°F 3.61 in 90.9°F 69.7°F 3.77 in
July 96.0°F 72.8°F 1.65 in 94.0°F 71.4°F 2.05 in
August 97.0°F 72.8°F 2.18 in 95.0°F 71.2°F 2.81 in
September 90.5°F 66.0°F 3.15 in 89.5°F 67.2°F 3.39 in
October 80.3°F 55.2°F 5.05 in 81.5°F 58.2°F 4.40 in
November 68.8°F 43.9°F 2.73 in 71.2°F 48.4°F 3.18 in
December 60.4°F 36.1°F 3.10 in 63.4°F 41.5°F 2.67 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 →