Climate twins of Marlin, TX

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

Top match: Weston, TX

Month Marlin Weston
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 59.1°F 33.5°F 3.32 in 55.5°F 33.9°F 2.70 in
February 63.0°F 37.4°F 2.87 in 59.7°F 38.1°F 2.57 in
March 69.3°F 44.5°F 3.74 in 67.5°F 45.5°F 3.51 in
April 76.9°F 52.1°F 3.35 in 74.7°F 53.0°F 3.58 in
May 83.4°F 61.0°F 4.97 in 82.8°F 62.4°F 4.77 in
June 90.6°F 68.3°F 3.01 in 90.7°F 70.2°F 3.58 in
July 94.5°F 71.3°F 1.84 in 95.0°F 73.8°F 1.96 in
August 95.5°F 70.7°F 2.23 in 95.5°F 73.1°F 1.73 in
September 89.8°F 64.1°F 3.05 in 88.3°F 65.5°F 2.81 in
October 80.6°F 53.9°F 4.34 in 77.9°F 54.2°F 4.41 in
November 69.4°F 42.1°F 2.94 in 66.2°F 43.7°F 3.19 in
December 60.8°F 35.0°F 3.44 in 57.1°F 35.8°F 3.49 in

Cities that consider Marlin their climate twin

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