Climate twins of Las Vegas, NM

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

Top match: Springerville, AZ

Month	Las Vegas			Springerville
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	50.1°F	11.3°F	0.42 in	50.2°F	16.1°F	0.49 in
February	52.8°F	14.4°F	0.45 in	54.3°F	19.3°F	0.49 in
March	60.4°F	20.3°F	0.56 in	60.8°F	23.4°F	0.41 in
April	67.2°F	28.2°F	0.70 in	67.9°F	29.0°F	0.28 in
May	75.0°F	35.7°F	1.49 in	75.8°F	36.3°F	0.40 in
June	84.7°F	45.2°F	1.36 in	84.8°F	44.5°F	0.41 in
July	85.2°F	51.2°F	3.19 in	85.4°F	51.9°F	2.56 in
August	84.2°F	50.2°F	3.12 in	82.6°F	50.6°F	2.87 in
September	78.6°F	42.1°F	2.43 in	78.7°F	43.1°F	1.45 in
October	69.2°F	29.4°F	1.69 in	70.3°F	31.5°F	0.90 in
November	58.7°F	19.0°F	0.57 in	59.6°F	21.8°F	0.53 in
December	50.2°F	11.5°F	0.74 in	50.3°F	16.0°F	0.57 in

Cities that consider Las Vegas their climate twin

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

Ruidoso, NM (ranks Las Vegas #1)
Ruidoso Downs, NM (ranks Las Vegas #1)

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 →