Climate twins of Santa Fe, NM
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Santa Fe'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: Santa Fe vs its climate twin
Top match: Gallup, NM
| Month | Santa Fe | Gallup | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 43.0°F | 17.9°F | 0.55 in | 43.8°F | 16.3°F | 0.91 in |
| February | 48.0°F | 21.3°F | 0.49 in | 48.1°F | 20.4°F | 0.86 in |
| March | 56.6°F | 26.4°F | 0.74 in | 56.7°F | 24.4°F | 0.85 in |
| April | 64.3°F | 32.4°F | 0.60 in | 64.6°F | 31.5°F | 0.60 in |
| May | 73.7°F | 40.8°F | 0.89 in | 73.7°F | 40.2°F | 0.66 in |
| June | 84.1°F | 50.1°F | 0.87 in | 84.7°F | 49.4°F | 0.34 in |
| July | 85.8°F | 55.1°F | 2.26 in | 87.2°F | 57.0°F | 2.02 in |
| August | 83.4°F | 53.7°F | 2.04 in | 84.3°F | 55.3°F | 2.36 in |
| September | 77.5°F | 46.8°F | 1.39 in | 78.7°F | 46.8°F | 1.22 in |
| October | 66.3°F | 35.4°F | 1.34 in | 67.5°F | 34.0°F | 1.06 in |
| November | 53.0°F | 24.4°F | 0.79 in | 54.7°F | 24.1°F | 0.77 in |
| December | 42.6°F | 17.6°F | 0.83 in | 44.1°F | 16.1°F | 0.87 in |
Cities that consider Santa Fe their climate twin
These US cities have Santa Fe in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Santa Fe would feel familiar.
- Gallup, NM (ranks Santa Fe #1)
- Eagar, AZ (ranks Santa Fe #3)
- Springerville, AZ (ranks Santa Fe #3)
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 →