Climate twins of Moriarty, NM

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

Top match: Gallup, NM

Month	Moriarty			Gallup
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	45.0°F	15.2°F	0.49 in	43.8°F	16.3°F	0.91 in
February	50.6°F	18.6°F	0.42 in	48.1°F	20.4°F	0.86 in
March	58.9°F	23.7°F	0.68 in	56.7°F	24.4°F	0.85 in
April	66.6°F	29.9°F	0.59 in	64.6°F	31.5°F	0.60 in
May	75.5°F	39.1°F	1.08 in	73.7°F	40.2°F	0.66 in
June	86.3°F	47.6°F	0.68 in	84.7°F	49.4°F	0.34 in
July	87.5°F	53.7°F	2.67 in	87.2°F	57.0°F	2.02 in
August	84.9°F	51.7°F	2.04 in	84.3°F	55.3°F	2.36 in
September	79.8°F	43.6°F	1.40 in	78.7°F	46.8°F	1.22 in
October	68.7°F	32.9°F	1.23 in	67.5°F	34.0°F	1.06 in
November	55.9°F	21.6°F	0.78 in	54.7°F	24.1°F	0.77 in
December	45.3°F	15.3°F	0.65 in	44.1°F	16.1°F	0.87 in

Cities that consider Moriarty their climate twin

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

Gallup, NM (ranks Moriarty #2)
Eagar, AZ (ranks Moriarty #2)
Springerville, AZ (ranks Moriarty #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 →