Climate twins of Panhandle, TX
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Panhandle'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: Panhandle vs its climate twin
Top match: Sublette, KS
| Month | Panhandle | Sublette | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 50.1°F | 23.8°F | 0.53 in | 49.0°F | 20.0°F | 0.44 in |
| February | 54.1°F | 26.6°F | 0.50 in | 53.5°F | 23.2°F | 0.36 in |
| March | 63.9°F | 33.7°F | 1.24 in | 63.3°F | 31.4°F | 1.09 in |
| April | 71.7°F | 41.5°F | 1.60 in | 71.7°F | 39.2°F | 1.60 in |
| May | 80.3°F | 51.8°F | 2.74 in | 80.6°F | 49.8°F | 2.28 in |
| June | 89.2°F | 62.1°F | 3.22 in | 90.4°F | 60.0°F | 2.96 in |
| July | 93.4°F | 66.2°F | 2.57 in | 94.4°F | 64.7°F | 2.72 in |
| August | 91.3°F | 65.0°F | 3.07 in | 92.0°F | 63.1°F | 2.69 in |
| September | 83.8°F | 57.4°F | 1.91 in | 85.9°F | 55.1°F | 1.30 in |
| October | 72.7°F | 45.3°F | 1.97 in | 74.1°F | 42.0°F | 1.64 in |
| November | 60.1°F | 33.4°F | 0.80 in | 60.1°F | 29.9°F | 0.58 in |
| December | 50.2°F | 25.2°F | 0.91 in | 49.2°F | 22.1°F | 0.64 in |
Cities that consider Panhandle their climate twin
These US cities have Panhandle in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Panhandle would feel familiar.
- Satanta, KS (ranks Panhandle #2)
- Sublette, KS (ranks Panhandle #2)
- Ingalls, KS (ranks Panhandle #2)
- Fowler, KS (ranks Panhandle #1)
- Minneola, KS (ranks Panhandle #2)
- Freedom, OK (ranks Panhandle #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 →