Climate twins of Melvin, TX

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

Top match: Dean, TX

Month	Melvin			Dean
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	58.4°F	35.3°F	1.33 in	54.7°F	30.0°F	1.20 in
February	62.4°F	38.9°F	1.71 in	59.0°F	33.6°F	1.40 in
March	69.7°F	46.3°F	2.33 in	67.9°F	41.6°F	2.02 in
April	77.2°F	53.1°F	2.05 in	76.0°F	49.6°F	2.50 in
May	83.6°F	62.6°F	3.79 in	83.9°F	59.7°F	3.81 in
June	90.0°F	69.2°F	2.88 in	92.0°F	68.3°F	3.35 in
July	93.2°F	71.8°F	2.11 in	97.2°F	72.2°F	2.02 in
August	93.7°F	71.6°F	2.21 in	96.6°F	71.5°F	2.53 in
September	86.8°F	65.2°F	2.76 in	88.3°F	63.8°F	2.99 in
October	78.4°F	54.6°F	2.71 in	77.3°F	51.9°F	2.88 in
November	67.4°F	44.7°F	1.87 in	65.2°F	40.2°F	1.63 in
December	59.6°F	36.8°F	1.63 in	55.7°F	31.8°F	1.56 in

Cities that consider Melvin their climate twin

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

Goree, TX (ranks Melvin #2)
Munday, TX (ranks Melvin #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 →