Climate twins of Kirtland, NM

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

Top match: Torrey, UT

Month	Kirtland			Torrey
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	43.4°F	16.2°F	0.59 in	38.0°F	21.7°F	0.43 in
February	50.8°F	18.2°F	0.53 in	43.4°F	25.9°F	0.57 in
March	60.3°F	25.7°F	0.49 in	53.4°F	31.9°F	0.68 in
April	67.9°F	31.3°F	0.53 in	59.9°F	37.9°F	0.49 in
May	78.0°F	40.3°F	0.34 in	70.3°F	46.3°F	0.55 in
June	88.1°F	48.6°F	0.16 in	82.0°F	56.1°F	0.43 in
July	91.8°F	57.3°F	0.73 in	86.6°F	62.2°F	1.59 in
August	89.4°F	55.9°F	1.03 in	84.6°F	59.9°F	0.94 in
September	82.3°F	46.7°F	0.95 in	75.9°F	52.7°F	0.91 in
October	69.8°F	34.4°F	0.84 in	62.2°F	41.0°F	0.90 in
November	55.6°F	22.3°F	0.53 in	48.2°F	29.4°F	0.47 in
December	43.8°F	16.0°F	0.62 in	37.0°F	20.8°F	0.42 in

Cities that consider Kirtland their climate twin

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

Torrey, UT (ranks Kirtland #1)
Escalante, UT (ranks Kirtland #3)

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 →