Climate twins of Melrose, NM

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

Top match: Guymon, OK

Month	Melrose			Guymon
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	54.2°F	25.3°F	0.47 in	50.7°F	21.9°F	0.41 in
February	59.2°F	27.9°F	0.35 in	54.2°F	24.3°F	0.33 in
March	67.2°F	34.2°F	0.72 in	63.1°F	32.0°F	1.11 in
April	75.4°F	41.1°F	0.84 in	71.3°F	40.7°F	1.49 in
May	83.6°F	51.0°F	1.58 in	80.6°F	51.4°F	2.25 in
June	92.1°F	60.4°F	1.91 in	90.7°F	61.6°F	2.88 in
July	93.0°F	64.3°F	2.52 in	95.0°F	66.5°F	2.39 in
August	91.3°F	63.2°F	2.75 in	92.1°F	64.8°F	2.58 in
September	85.0°F	56.0°F	2.02 in	85.4°F	56.5°F	1.36 in
October	74.6°F	44.3°F	2.12 in	73.1°F	43.0°F	1.75 in
November	62.5°F	33.0°F	0.41 in	60.6°F	30.7°F	0.51 in
December	54.0°F	25.8°F	0.52 in	50.0°F	22.9°F	0.69 in

Cities that consider Melrose their climate twin

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

Petersburg, TX (ranks Melrose #3)

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 →