Climate twins of Reno, TX

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Reno'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
Weir, TX
similarity distance: 1.092 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Leander, TX
similarity distance: 1.092 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Georgetown, TX
similarity distance: 1.092 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Reno vs its climate twin

Top match: Weir, TX

Month Reno Weir
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 56.5°F 34.4°F 2.18 in 60.3°F 36.2°F 2.50 in
February 60.9°F 38.2°F 2.48 in 64.6°F 40.1°F 2.24 in
March 68.7°F 45.8°F 3.35 in 71.5°F 47.2°F 3.09 in
April 76.2°F 53.5°F 3.35 in 78.6°F 54.2°F 3.02 in
May 83.0°F 63.7°F 4.42 in 85.4°F 63.4°F 4.25 in
June 91.4°F 71.4°F 4.16 in 92.0°F 69.5°F 3.97 in
July 96.6°F 75.0°F 2.22 in 95.9°F 72.2°F 2.19 in
August 96.9°F 74.1°F 2.42 in 96.8°F 72.0°F 2.64 in
September 89.4°F 67.0°F 3.01 in 90.1°F 66.5°F 3.96 in
October 78.7°F 55.2°F 4.23 in 81.3°F 56.8°F 3.92 in
November 67.2°F 45.2°F 2.86 in 69.8°F 46.3°F 2.71 in
December 58.5°F 36.8°F 2.80 in 61.7°F 38.2°F 2.59 in

Cities that consider Reno their climate twin

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

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 →