Climate twins of Sunland Park, NM
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Sunland Park'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: Sunland Park vs its climate twin
Top match: Balmorhea, TX
| Month | Sunland Park | Balmorhea | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 57.7°F | 29.6°F | 0.51 in | 60.3°F | 31.0°F | 0.66 in |
| February | 63.0°F | 32.6°F | 0.53 in | 65.6°F | 34.1°F | 0.41 in |
| March | 71.1°F | 39.3°F | 0.26 in | 72.8°F | 40.3°F | 0.38 in |
| April | 78.6°F | 46.6°F | 0.20 in | 80.5°F | 47.3°F | 0.50 in |
| May | 87.0°F | 55.6°F | 0.39 in | 87.9°F | 57.2°F | 1.05 in |
| June | 95.9°F | 65.0°F | 0.82 in | 94.7°F | 65.9°F | 1.13 in |
| July | 94.7°F | 68.7°F | 2.31 in | 93.7°F | 67.7°F | 1.82 in |
| August | 93.1°F | 67.9°F | 1.73 in | 93.0°F | 66.7°F | 1.87 in |
| September | 87.5°F | 62.1°F | 1.49 in | 86.5°F | 60.2°F | 2.02 in |
| October | 78.5°F | 50.0°F | 0.75 in | 79.4°F | 49.6°F | 1.09 in |
| November | 66.3°F | 37.2°F | 0.47 in | 69.2°F | 38.1°F | 0.60 in |
| December | 56.5°F | 29.8°F | 0.65 in | 60.9°F | 31.3°F | 0.57 in |
Cities that consider Sunland Park their climate twin
These US cities have Sunland Park in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Sunland Park would feel familiar.
- Benson, AZ (ranks Sunland Park #1)
- Carlsbad, NM (ranks Sunland Park #3)
- Loving, NM (ranks Sunland Park #2)
- Willcox, AZ (ranks Sunland Park #2)
- Jal, NM (ranks Sunland Park #2)
- Lovington, NM (ranks Sunland Park #3)
- Pyote, TX (ranks Sunland Park #2)
- Thorntonville, TX (ranks Sunland Park #2)
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 →