Climate twins of San Marcos, TX

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

Top match: Benbrook, TX

Month San Marcos Benbrook
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 62.3°F 38.9°F 2.41 in 58.8°F 33.3°F 2.15 in
February 66.6°F 42.4°F 1.73 in 62.9°F 37.0°F 2.38 in
March 73.1°F 49.5°F 2.76 in 70.0°F 44.7°F 3.20 in
April 79.8°F 56.3°F 3.20 in 77.5°F 52.3°F 3.23 in
May 86.2°F 64.9°F 4.53 in 84.7°F 61.9°F 4.54 in
June 92.4°F 71.7°F 3.57 in 92.7°F 69.9°F 3.52 in
July 95.7°F 73.4°F 2.21 in 97.1°F 73.1°F 1.87 in
August 96.8°F 73.7°F 2.60 in 97.5°F 72.7°F 2.45 in
September 90.5°F 68.5°F 4.03 in 90.3°F 65.2°F 3.40 in
October 82.1°F 58.1°F 4.41 in 80.6°F 54.1°F 4.27 in
November 71.5°F 48.3°F 2.69 in 68.6°F 43.8°F 2.71 in
December 63.7°F 40.8°F 2.41 in 60.3°F 36.0°F 2.43 in

Cities that consider San Marcos their climate twin

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