Climate twins of Taos, NM

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Taos'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.

Rank 1 closest
Joseph, UT
similarity distance: 1.031 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Cedaredge, CO
similarity distance: 1.040 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Cannonville, UT
similarity distance: 1.062 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Taos vs its climate twin

Top match: Joseph, UT

Month Taos Joseph
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 42.1°F 12.2°F 0.67 in 42.3°F 12.4°F 0.78 in
February 46.4°F 19.4°F 0.45 in 46.3°F 16.2°F 0.97 in
March 55.2°F 25.3°F 0.71 in 54.9°F 22.3°F 0.85 in
April 63.0°F 30.5°F 0.83 in 61.0°F 27.4°F 1.14 in
May 72.9°F 37.1°F 1.22 in 70.9°F 35.2°F 1.19 in
June 83.7°F 47.4°F 0.86 in 82.7°F 43.0°F 0.63 in
July 86.5°F 52.7°F 1.53 in 89.6°F 51.0°F 1.23 in
August 84.2°F 51.3°F 1.77 in 87.5°F 49.0°F 1.30 in
September 78.1°F 44.8°F 1.37 in 79.5°F 39.6°F 1.01 in
October 67.0°F 32.3°F 1.34 in 66.3°F 28.5°F 1.21 in
November 53.1°F 22.4°F 0.88 in 52.5°F 19.3°F 0.88 in
December 42.4°F 13.6°F 1.07 in 41.8°F 11.7°F 0.89 in

Cities that consider Taos their climate twin

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