Climate twins of Refugio, TX

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

Top match: Taylor, TX

Month Refugio Taylor
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 66.6°F 44.8°F 2.25 in 60.7°F 37.4°F 2.77 in
February 69.6°F 48.1°F 2.02 in 64.3°F 40.8°F 2.14 in
March 75.1°F 54.5°F 3.19 in 71.4°F 47.9°F 3.10 in
April 80.7°F 60.6°F 2.25 in 78.4°F 54.6°F 2.65 in
May 86.3°F 68.4°F 3.47 in 85.1°F 63.6°F 4.60 in
June 91.3°F 73.0°F 3.25 in 91.9°F 70.7°F 3.16 in
July 93.5°F 74.6°F 2.11 in 95.4°F 73.0°F 2.65 in
August 95.2°F 74.0°F 3.61 in 96.6°F 72.7°F 2.69 in
September 90.8°F 70.4°F 3.84 in 90.7°F 66.5°F 3.63 in
October 84.5°F 61.5°F 4.04 in 81.7°F 56.2°F 3.94 in
November 75.4°F 53.0°F 2.55 in 70.4°F 46.4°F 2.78 in
December 68.4°F 45.9°F 2.20 in 62.2°F 38.8°F 3.00 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 →