Climate twins of Odessa, TX

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

Top match: Dexter, NM

Month	Odessa			Dexter
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	56.9°F	32.2°F	0.68 in	57.3°F	28.1°F	0.36 in
February	62.0°F	36.2°F	0.54 in	63.2°F	32.5°F	0.35 in
March	70.8°F	44.0°F	0.67 in	71.0°F	39.4°F	0.54 in
April	79.3°F	50.9°F	0.70 in	79.4°F	47.0°F	0.57 in
May	86.6°F	61.0°F	1.62 in	87.8°F	56.7°F	1.14 in
June	94.0°F	68.1°F	1.00 in	96.2°F	65.7°F	1.28 in
July	94.0°F	70.8°F	1.47 in	96.5°F	69.9°F	1.82 in
August	92.9°F	69.9°F	1.61 in	94.6°F	68.6°F	1.68 in
September	85.3°F	62.4°F	1.53 in	87.6°F	61.2°F	1.55 in
October	77.0°F	53.1°F	1.27 in	77.7°F	48.8°F	1.33 in
November	66.0°F	41.4°F	0.61 in	65.7°F	36.3°F	0.45 in
December	57.9°F	33.3°F	0.58 in	56.5°F	28.3°F	0.56 in

Cities that consider Odessa their climate twin

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

Dexter, NM (ranks Odessa #1)

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 →