Climate twins of Mertzon, TX

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

Top match: Wellington, TX

Month Mertzon Wellington
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 58.2°F 29.3°F 0.89 in 56.2°F 27.9°F 0.73 in
February 63.5°F 33.1°F 1.03 in 60.1°F 31.3°F 0.86 in
March 70.5°F 40.5°F 1.52 in 70.2°F 38.9°F 1.34 in
April 79.5°F 48.5°F 1.57 in 78.8°F 47.4°F 1.86 in
May 86.9°F 58.5°F 2.64 in 86.6°F 57.3°F 3.24 in
June 92.6°F 67.4°F 2.54 in 94.6°F 66.4°F 3.32 in
July 94.2°F 69.6°F 1.90 in 98.7°F 70.1°F 2.15 in
August 94.6°F 69.4°F 2.35 in 97.6°F 69.1°F 1.92 in
September 87.4°F 62.0°F 2.59 in 90.1°F 61.8°F 2.35 in
October 79.5°F 50.9°F 2.17 in 78.7°F 49.6°F 2.25 in
November 67.8°F 38.5°F 1.47 in 66.2°F 37.6°F 1.19 in
December 60.1°F 30.7°F 0.90 in 56.3°F 30.0°F 0.87 in

Cities that consider Mertzon their climate twin

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