Climate twins of Lockney, TX

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

Top match: Follett, TX

Month Lockney Follett
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 52.1°F 25.3°F 0.71 in 48.6°F 22.8°F 0.80 in
February 56.6°F 28.2°F 0.69 in 52.6°F 25.0°F 0.74 in
March 65.2°F 35.6°F 1.33 in 62.2°F 32.9°F 1.74 in
April 73.4°F 43.5°F 1.47 in 70.9°F 41.0°F 2.08 in
May 81.5°F 54.2°F 3.11 in 79.8°F 52.2°F 3.12 in
June 89.5°F 63.8°F 3.41 in 88.7°F 62.3°F 3.45 in
July 92.4°F 67.9°F 1.82 in 93.3°F 66.9°F 2.74 in
August 91.2°F 66.5°F 1.98 in 92.2°F 65.6°F 2.54 in
September 83.5°F 59.0°F 2.62 in 84.6°F 57.8°F 2.12 in
October 73.9°F 47.1°F 1.45 in 72.5°F 45.0°F 2.15 in
November 61.8°F 34.9°F 0.75 in 60.2°F 32.9°F 0.94 in
December 52.9°F 26.8°F 0.85 in 49.4°F 24.7°F 0.82 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 →