Climate twins of Midland, TX

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

Top match: Carlsbad, NM

Month	Midland			Carlsbad
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	60.3°F	31.0°F	0.77 in	58.7°F	30.0°F	0.56 in
February	65.3°F	34.9°F	0.54 in	64.0°F	34.0°F	0.45 in
March	73.6°F	42.3°F	0.75 in	71.8°F	40.7°F	0.54 in
April	82.2°F	49.7°F	0.85 in	80.1°F	48.3°F	0.45 in
May	89.1°F	59.7°F	1.70 in	88.0°F	57.9°F	0.99 in
June	94.7°F	67.4°F	1.55 in	96.6°F	67.0°F	1.07 in
July	95.3°F	69.7°F	1.45 in	96.5°F	70.7°F	2.03 in
August	94.4°F	68.7°F	1.58 in	95.3°F	69.4°F	1.63 in
September	88.1°F	61.8°F	1.87 in	88.4°F	62.3°F	2.49 in
October	80.6°F	51.5°F	1.18 in	79.7°F	50.2°F	1.01 in
November	68.0°F	39.8°F	0.86 in	67.8°F	38.2°F	0.66 in
December	60.5°F	32.2°F	0.45 in	58.6°F	30.7°F	0.67 in

Cities that consider Midland their climate twin

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

Carlsbad, NM (ranks Midland #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 →