Climate twins of Payne Springs, TX

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

Top match: Texarkana, AR

Month Payne Springs Texarkana
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 57.9°F 34.5°F 3.54 in 54.0°F 35.1°F 3.64 in
February 62.0°F 38.5°F 3.88 in 58.2°F 38.4°F 4.28 in
March 69.0°F 45.2°F 4.08 in 66.7°F 45.2°F 4.45 in
April 76.4°F 53.1°F 3.82 in 74.5°F 52.7°F 4.43 in
May 83.2°F 62.6°F 4.30 in 81.6°F 61.6°F 5.10 in
June 90.1°F 70.3°F 4.09 in 88.7°F 69.1°F 3.92 in
July 94.1°F 72.6°F 2.53 in 92.7°F 72.3°F 3.37 in
August 95.1°F 72.3°F 2.64 in 92.8°F 71.3°F 2.98 in
September 89.2°F 65.7°F 2.97 in 86.4°F 64.5°F 3.60 in
October 79.1°F 54.6°F 5.09 in 76.0°F 53.7°F 4.51 in
November 67.6°F 44.1°F 3.49 in 64.3°F 43.6°F 3.91 in
December 59.3°F 36.5°F 4.32 in 55.7°F 37.2°F 4.68 in

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 →