Climate twins of Lake Arthur, NM

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

Top match: Logan, NM

Month	Lake Arthur			Logan
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	57.5°F	23.3°F	0.48 in	53.6°F	23.6°F	0.40 in
February	62.8°F	27.4°F	0.38 in	58.2°F	26.8°F	0.36 in
March	70.5°F	34.5°F	0.44 in	66.3°F	33.6°F	0.84 in
April	78.5°F	41.6°F	0.51 in	74.0°F	41.3°F	0.90 in
May	86.9°F	52.3°F	1.18 in	83.2°F	51.0°F	1.40 in
June	95.2°F	61.9°F	1.33 in	93.0°F	61.4°F	1.55 in
July	95.1°F	65.9°F	1.67 in	95.0°F	66.2°F	1.94 in
August	93.9°F	64.3°F	1.63 in	92.7°F	64.6°F	2.21 in
September	86.8°F	56.5°F	1.89 in	85.7°F	57.1°F	1.37 in
October	77.7°F	43.8°F	1.23 in	74.4°F	44.0°F	1.31 in
November	65.9°F	31.6°F	0.81 in	62.4°F	32.2°F	0.55 in
December	57.1°F	23.8°F	0.55 in	53.0°F	24.3°F	0.52 in

Cities that consider Lake Arthur their climate twin

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

Logan, NM (ranks Lake Arthur #2)
Lamesa, TX (ranks Lake Arthur #1)
Los Ybanez, TX (ranks Lake Arthur #1)
Brownfield, TX (ranks Lake Arthur #2)

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 →