Climate twins of Muleshoe, TX

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

Top match: Keyes, OK

Month Muleshoe Keyes
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 53.1°F 20.0°F 0.54 in 51.8°F 20.4°F 0.50 in
February 57.7°F 23.1°F 0.53 in 55.7°F 22.6°F 0.36 in
March 65.6°F 30.0°F 1.01 in 64.2°F 29.5°F 1.10 in
April 73.7°F 37.5°F 0.90 in 71.5°F 37.6°F 1.40 in
May 81.5°F 48.2°F 1.84 in 80.4°F 47.3°F 1.82 in
June 90.3°F 58.7°F 2.77 in 90.1°F 57.9°F 2.28 in
July 91.6°F 62.6°F 2.46 in 93.8°F 62.8°F 3.12 in
August 90.0°F 61.2°F 2.83 in 90.8°F 61.5°F 3.23 in
September 83.3°F 53.5°F 2.37 in 84.6°F 53.8°F 1.75 in
October 73.8°F 40.5°F 1.79 in 73.5°F 40.4°F 1.48 in
November 62.1°F 27.9°F 0.62 in 61.4°F 29.3°F 0.56 in
December 53.5°F 21.2°F 0.66 in 51.3°F 21.7°F 0.74 in

Cities that consider Muleshoe their climate twin

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