Climate twins of Raton, NM

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Raton'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.

Rank 1 closest
Calhan, CO
similarity distance: 1.217 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Limon, CO
similarity distance: 1.389 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Grover, CO
similarity distance: 1.454 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Raton vs its climate twin

Top match: Calhan, CO

Month Raton Calhan
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 47.1°F 14.1°F 0.35 in 43.4°F 15.5°F 0.24 in
February 50.0°F 16.7°F 0.32 in 44.9°F 17.3°F 0.31 in
March 57.6°F 22.9°F 0.80 in 53.1°F 24.0°F 0.77 in
April 64.3°F 29.5°F 0.89 in 60.0°F 30.7°F 1.59 in
May 72.1°F 38.2°F 1.77 in 69.3°F 41.3°F 2.07 in
June 81.7°F 46.4°F 1.87 in 80.6°F 50.6°F 1.82 in
July 84.5°F 51.4°F 2.83 in 86.1°F 56.1°F 2.71 in
August 82.1°F 50.3°F 2.52 in 83.3°F 55.0°F 2.66 in
September 77.1°F 43.2°F 1.64 in 77.0°F 45.8°F 1.00 in
October 67.3°F 31.8°F 1.18 in 63.8°F 33.8°F 0.84 in
November 55.6°F 21.5°F 0.52 in 51.5°F 22.7°F 0.36 in
December 46.4°F 14.4°F 0.40 in 42.8°F 16.0°F 0.27 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 →