Climate twins of Sweetwater, TX

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

Top match: Wellington, TX

Month Sweetwater Wellington
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.5°F 30.8°F 0.98 in 56.2°F 27.9°F 0.73 in
February 60.3°F 34.3°F 0.99 in 60.1°F 31.3°F 0.86 in
March 68.7°F 41.6°F 1.39 in 70.2°F 38.9°F 1.34 in
April 77.8°F 49.8°F 1.49 in 78.8°F 47.4°F 1.86 in
May 84.8°F 59.9°F 2.79 in 86.6°F 57.3°F 3.24 in
June 91.1°F 68.0°F 3.12 in 94.6°F 66.4°F 3.32 in
July 94.6°F 71.3°F 1.77 in 98.7°F 70.1°F 2.15 in
August 93.5°F 70.5°F 2.20 in 97.6°F 69.1°F 1.92 in
September 85.7°F 63.3°F 2.13 in 90.1°F 61.8°F 2.35 in
October 76.5°F 52.6°F 2.22 in 78.7°F 49.6°F 2.25 in
November 64.8°F 41.0°F 1.15 in 66.2°F 37.6°F 1.19 in
December 56.8°F 33.0°F 0.98 in 56.3°F 30.0°F 0.87 in

Cities that consider Sweetwater their climate twin

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