Climate twins of Turkey, TX

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

Top match: Geronimo, OK

Month Turkey Geronimo
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.4°F 27.3°F 0.93 in 53.7°F 27.4°F 1.04 in
February 59.2°F 30.3°F 0.99 in 58.0°F 31.9°F 0.89 in
March 67.8°F 38.0°F 1.64 in 66.8°F 40.5°F 1.89 in
April 76.4°F 46.2°F 2.51 in 74.8°F 48.5°F 2.46 in
May 83.8°F 56.4°F 3.28 in 83.2°F 58.9°F 3.72 in
June 91.5°F 65.7°F 3.91 in 92.0°F 68.1°F 3.98 in
July 95.5°F 69.5°F 2.44 in 97.2°F 71.5°F 2.00 in
August 94.7°F 68.1°F 2.57 in 96.4°F 70.7°F 3.21 in
September 86.8°F 60.5°F 2.87 in 87.6°F 62.6°F 2.80 in
October 76.9°F 48.2°F 1.92 in 76.5°F 50.3°F 2.52 in
November 65.5°F 37.1°F 1.07 in 64.1°F 38.2°F 1.50 in
December 55.9°F 29.0°F 0.89 in 54.3°F 29.1°F 1.46 in

Cities that consider Turkey their climate twin

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