Climate twins of Plains, TX

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

Top match: Logan, NM

Month	Plains			Logan
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	54.3°F	24.5°F	0.52 in	53.6°F	23.6°F	0.40 in
February	59.3°F	28.2°F	0.59 in	58.2°F	26.8°F	0.36 in
March	67.3°F	34.8°F	1.04 in	66.3°F	33.6°F	0.84 in
April	75.3°F	42.1°F	0.91 in	74.0°F	41.3°F	0.90 in
May	83.7°F	53.0°F	1.56 in	83.2°F	51.0°F	1.40 in
June	91.8°F	62.1°F	1.99 in	93.0°F	61.4°F	1.55 in
July	92.5°F	65.3°F	2.10 in	95.0°F	66.2°F	1.94 in
August	91.4°F	64.2°F	2.10 in	92.7°F	64.6°F	2.21 in
September	84.3°F	56.9°F	2.48 in	85.7°F	57.1°F	1.37 in
October	75.2°F	45.0°F	1.43 in	74.4°F	44.0°F	1.31 in
November	63.3°F	32.9°F	0.70 in	62.4°F	32.2°F	0.55 in
December	55.0°F	25.9°F	0.77 in	53.0°F	24.3°F	0.52 in

Cities that consider Plains their climate twin

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

Logan, NM (ranks Plains #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 →