Climate twins of Maxwell, NM

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

Top match: Calhan, CO

Month	Maxwell			Calhan
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	46.8°F	12.5°F	0.34 in	43.4°F	15.5°F	0.24 in
February	50.5°F	14.1°F	0.29 in	44.9°F	17.3°F	0.31 in
March	58.7°F	21.4°F	0.70 in	53.1°F	24.0°F	0.77 in
April	64.9°F	28.9°F	0.81 in	60.0°F	30.7°F	1.59 in
May	73.9°F	38.2°F	1.64 in	69.3°F	41.3°F	2.07 in
June	83.0°F	46.8°F	1.89 in	80.6°F	50.6°F	1.82 in
July	86.2°F	52.3°F	2.58 in	86.1°F	56.1°F	2.71 in
August	84.0°F	51.5°F	2.47 in	83.3°F	55.0°F	2.66 in
September	78.7°F	43.8°F	1.64 in	77.0°F	45.8°F	1.00 in
October	68.1°F	31.2°F	1.01 in	63.8°F	33.8°F	0.84 in
November	55.9°F	20.0°F	0.35 in	51.5°F	22.7°F	0.36 in
December	46.2°F	11.9°F	0.35 in	42.8°F	16.0°F	0.27 in

Cities that consider Maxwell their climate twin

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

Calhan, CO (ranks Maxwell #3)
Hugo, CO (ranks Maxwell #3)
Limon, CO (ranks Maxwell #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 →