Climate twins of Paint Rock, TX

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

Top match: Benjamin, TX

Month Paint Rock Benjamin
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 60.0°F 30.3°F 1.06 in 55.2°F 29.5°F 1.09 in
February 63.9°F 34.3°F 1.57 in 59.5°F 32.6°F 1.45 in
March 71.4°F 42.2°F 1.78 in 67.7°F 40.1°F 1.71 in
April 80.3°F 50.3°F 1.51 in 77.2°F 48.4°F 2.18 in
May 87.1°F 60.7°F 3.04 in 85.2°F 59.1°F 3.48 in
June 93.2°F 68.5°F 3.50 in 92.9°F 68.5°F 3.43 in
July 96.2°F 71.3°F 2.05 in 97.2°F 72.2°F 2.07 in
August 96.0°F 70.5°F 2.39 in 96.9°F 71.0°F 2.05 in
September 89.0°F 63.4°F 2.33 in 88.0°F 63.4°F 2.89 in
October 80.3°F 51.9°F 2.36 in 78.1°F 51.1°F 2.41 in
November 68.6°F 40.2°F 1.81 in 65.9°F 40.0°F 1.54 in
December 60.3°F 31.7°F 1.17 in 56.4°F 31.0°F 1.13 in

Cities that consider Paint Rock their climate twin

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