Climate twins of Hope, NM

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

Top match: Truth or Consequences, NM

Month Hope Truth or Consequences
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 56.5°F 29.9°F 0.41 in 55.0°F 29.6°F 0.45 in
February 60.5°F 32.5°F 0.36 in 60.7°F 33.5°F 0.30 in
March 68.2°F 38.9°F 0.55 in 68.1°F 39.8°F 0.24 in
April 76.6°F 46.1°F 0.58 in 75.8°F 46.6°F 0.27 in
May 85.1°F 55.1°F 1.03 in 84.8°F 55.8°F 0.55 in
June 93.9°F 63.0°F 0.89 in 93.9°F 64.4°F 0.41 in
July 93.1°F 67.4°F 1.97 in 93.2°F 67.7°F 1.63 in
August 91.6°F 67.0°F 1.88 in 90.8°F 66.2°F 1.76 in
September 85.5°F 59.5°F 2.82 in 85.1°F 59.8°F 1.70 in
October 76.7°F 49.0°F 1.13 in 75.7°F 48.8°F 0.73 in
November 65.1°F 38.0°F 0.67 in 63.2°F 36.9°F 0.51 in
December 56.7°F 30.7°F 0.57 in 53.7°F 29.5°F 0.60 in

Cities that consider Hope their climate twin

These US cities have Hope in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Hope 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 →