Climate twins of Tijeras, NM

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

Top match: Prescott Valley, AZ

Month Tijeras Prescott Valley
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.2°F 25.6°F 0.71 in 52.6°F 23.8°F 1.52 in
February 51.1°F 28.6°F 0.85 in 55.2°F 26.4°F 1.78 in
March 60.1°F 34.7°F 1.05 in 61.2°F 31.6°F 1.46 in
April 68.5°F 40.2°F 0.88 in 67.8°F 37.3°F 0.57 in
May 77.6°F 49.1°F 0.70 in 76.3°F 45.0°F 0.51 in
June 87.7°F 58.2°F 0.61 in 87.0°F 53.6°F 0.23 in
July 88.7°F 62.4°F 2.61 in 89.6°F 61.0°F 2.69 in
August 86.3°F 60.9°F 2.66 in 87.2°F 59.7°F 2.78 in
September 79.8°F 54.8°F 1.56 in 82.4°F 52.2°F 1.64 in
October 67.7°F 43.4°F 1.33 in 72.9°F 40.1°F 0.96 in
November 54.3°F 32.9°F 0.88 in 61.6°F 29.8°F 0.87 in
December 44.5°F 25.8°F 1.08 in 51.9°F 23.6°F 1.45 in

Cities that consider Tijeras their climate twin

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