Climate twins of Salado, TX

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

Top match: Southlake, TX

Month Salado Southlake
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 60.0°F 35.7°F 2.55 in 55.7°F 34.1°F 2.62 in
February 64.3°F 39.2°F 2.29 in 60.3°F 38.3°F 2.73 in
March 70.5°F 46.2°F 3.26 in 67.7°F 45.4°F 3.59 in
April 77.8°F 54.0°F 3.10 in 75.3°F 53.5°F 3.53 in
May 84.5°F 62.6°F 4.85 in 82.5°F 62.8°F 4.73 in
June 91.1°F 69.6°F 3.43 in 90.8°F 71.1°F 3.75 in
July 95.2°F 72.1°F 1.85 in 95.3°F 74.1°F 2.25 in
August 96.0°F 71.8°F 2.46 in 95.7°F 73.9°F 2.09 in
September 90.0°F 65.8°F 3.74 in 88.6°F 66.7°F 3.45 in
October 80.8°F 55.7°F 4.00 in 78.4°F 55.1°F 4.46 in
November 69.4°F 45.6°F 2.64 in 66.3°F 44.7°F 2.78 in
December 61.4°F 38.1°F 2.80 in 57.7°F 36.3°F 2.91 in

Cities that consider Salado their climate twin

These US cities have Salado in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Salado 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 →