Climate twins of Vaughn, NM

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Vaughn'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
Milan, NM
similarity distance: 1.181 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Grants, NM
similarity distance: 1.181 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Gallup, NM
similarity distance: 1.241 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Vaughn vs its climate twin

Top match: Milan, NM

Month Vaughn Milan
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 46.0°F 18.1°F 0.48 in 49.9°F 14.6°F 0.56 in
February 51.5°F 21.3°F 0.42 in 55.6°F 17.0°F 0.39 in
March 60.0°F 25.8°F 0.58 in 63.5°F 23.4°F 0.49 in
April 67.4°F 32.0°F 0.44 in 70.4°F 30.6°F 0.42 in
May 76.4°F 41.3°F 1.15 in 79.6°F 38.9°F 0.52 in
June 87.0°F 50.9°F 1.39 in 90.3°F 47.9°F 0.49 in
July 88.4°F 56.2°F 2.42 in 91.9°F 55.4°F 1.69 in
August 85.9°F 54.7°F 2.53 in 89.0°F 53.2°F 1.83 in
September 80.1°F 47.2°F 1.84 in 83.5°F 44.8°F 1.19 in
October 69.2°F 35.6°F 1.22 in 73.4°F 31.6°F 0.83 in
November 57.0°F 25.3°F 0.57 in 60.4°F 21.1°F 0.65 in
December 46.3°F 18.4°F 0.76 in 50.2°F 14.1°F 0.61 in

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 →