Climate twins of Rice, TX
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Rice'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: Rice vs its climate twin
Top match: Burton, TX
| Month | Rice | Burton | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 57.3°F | 34.8°F | 3.14 in | 62.4°F | 34.7°F | 3.17 in |
| February | 61.3°F | 38.4°F | 3.27 in | 65.9°F | 38.9°F | 2.92 in |
| March | 68.3°F | 45.7°F | 4.01 in | 72.8°F | 45.6°F | 3.22 in |
| April | 75.9°F | 52.9°F | 3.99 in | 79.8°F | 52.7°F | 3.33 in |
| May | 82.9°F | 62.6°F | 4.28 in | 86.9°F | 61.5°F | 4.73 in |
| June | 90.2°F | 70.2°F | 3.77 in | 93.3°F | 68.2°F | 3.94 in |
| July | 94.6°F | 73.5°F | 2.11 in | 96.6°F | 70.4°F | 1.88 in |
| August | 95.8°F | 73.2°F | 2.48 in | 97.8°F | 70.0°F | 2.81 in |
| September | 89.7°F | 66.0°F | 3.28 in | 92.1°F | 64.1°F | 3.41 in |
| October | 79.2°F | 55.2°F | 5.02 in | 83.4°F | 53.1°F | 4.34 in |
| November | 67.4°F | 44.5°F | 3.16 in | 72.3°F | 44.2°F | 3.55 in |
| December | 59.4°F | 37.1°F | 3.61 in | 64.4°F | 36.8°F | 3.65 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 →