Climate twins of Sterling City, TX

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

Top match: Wellington, TX

Month Sterling City Wellington
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 57.5°F 29.9°F 0.95 in 56.2°F 27.9°F 0.73 in
February 61.8°F 33.5°F 0.97 in 60.1°F 31.3°F 0.86 in
March 69.1°F 41.5°F 1.27 in 70.2°F 38.9°F 1.34 in
April 77.8°F 49.8°F 1.32 in 78.8°F 47.4°F 1.86 in
May 84.8°F 60.9°F 2.75 in 86.6°F 57.3°F 3.24 in
June 91.1°F 68.2°F 2.06 in 94.6°F 66.4°F 3.32 in
July 93.5°F 71.0°F 1.68 in 98.7°F 70.1°F 2.15 in
August 92.9°F 70.3°F 2.42 in 97.6°F 69.1°F 1.92 in
September 85.8°F 62.5°F 2.45 in 90.1°F 61.8°F 2.35 in
October 77.3°F 51.5°F 2.46 in 78.7°F 49.6°F 2.25 in
November 65.9°F 39.2°F 1.20 in 66.2°F 37.6°F 1.19 in
December 58.3°F 31.2°F 0.87 in 56.3°F 30.0°F 0.87 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 →