Climate twins of Valentine, TX

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

Top match: Tularosa, NM

Month	Valentine			Tularosa
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	60.8°F	27.4°F	0.63 in	55.6°F	28.9°F	0.45 in
February	66.3°F	30.7°F	0.43 in	61.0°F	33.2°F	0.48 in
March	73.3°F	36.3°F	0.37 in	68.5°F	38.8°F	0.35 in
April	81.1°F	43.5°F	0.36 in	76.5°F	44.8°F	0.35 in
May	88.6°F	52.4°F	0.71 in	84.7°F	53.3°F	0.49 in
June	94.5°F	61.3°F	1.76 in	93.7°F	61.8°F	0.75 in
July	92.3°F	63.5°F	2.40 in	93.2°F	65.6°F	1.79 in
August	91.4°F	62.3°F	1.36 in	91.3°F	64.5°F	1.81 in
September	86.6°F	56.8°F	1.75 in	85.6°F	58.5°F	1.73 in
October	79.9°F	46.5°F	1.20 in	75.8°F	47.8°F	1.09 in
November	69.3°F	34.6°F	0.57 in	63.7°F	36.8°F	0.67 in
December	61.1°F	28.3°F	0.58 in	55.1°F	29.5°F	0.87 in

Cities that consider Valentine their climate twin

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

Lovington, NM (ranks Valentine #1)
Artesia, NM (ranks Valentine #3)
Lake Arthur, NM (ranks Valentine #3)

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 →