Climate twins of Taylor, AZ

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

Top match: Milan, NM

Month	Taylor			Milan
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	50.0°F	20.2°F	0.72 in	49.9°F	14.6°F	0.56 in
February	55.2°F	23.0°F	0.64 in	55.6°F	17.0°F	0.39 in
March	62.2°F	27.9°F	0.74 in	63.5°F	23.4°F	0.49 in
April	69.2°F	33.2°F	0.38 in	70.4°F	30.6°F	0.42 in
May	77.9°F	40.8°F	0.39 in	79.6°F	38.9°F	0.52 in
June	88.1°F	48.3°F	0.28 in	90.3°F	47.9°F	0.49 in
July	90.0°F	57.6°F	2.16 in	91.9°F	55.4°F	1.69 in
August	88.1°F	56.0°F	1.91 in	89.0°F	53.2°F	1.83 in
September	82.8°F	48.6°F	1.19 in	83.5°F	44.8°F	1.19 in
October	72.5°F	36.1°F	0.94 in	73.4°F	31.6°F	0.83 in
November	60.1°F	26.1°F	0.77 in	60.4°F	21.1°F	0.65 in
December	49.1°F	20.1°F	0.92 in	50.2°F	14.1°F	0.61 in

Cities that consider Taylor their climate twin

These US cities have Taylor in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Taylor would feel familiar.

Grants, NM (ranks Taylor #1)
Milan, NM (ranks Taylor #1)
Mountainair, NM (ranks Taylor #1)
Willard, NM (ranks Taylor #1)
San Ysidro, NM (ranks Taylor #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 →