Climate twins of Virden, NM

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

Top match: Camp Verde, AZ

Month Virden Camp Verde
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 60.2°F 25.1°F 0.94 in 60.5°F 25.9°F 1.36 in
February 64.9°F 28.5°F 0.84 in 64.9°F 29.3°F 1.28 in
March 72.5°F 33.1°F 0.50 in 72.0°F 34.9°F 1.15 in
April 80.5°F 38.6°F 0.17 in 79.0°F 40.0°F 0.49 in
May 88.9°F 47.1°F 0.29 in 87.6°F 47.3°F 0.40 in
June 98.1°F 57.2°F 0.25 in 98.1°F 54.4°F 0.19 in
July 97.5°F 65.5°F 1.68 in 100.8°F 64.0°F 1.52 in
August 95.5°F 64.6°F 2.18 in 98.5°F 62.8°F 2.13 in
September 90.7°F 56.4°F 1.21 in 93.0°F 55.0°F 1.49 in
October 81.4°F 42.8°F 0.71 in 82.3°F 42.6°F 0.95 in
November 69.3°F 30.8°F 0.64 in 69.3°F 31.5°F 0.71 in
December 59.2°F 24.9°F 1.00 in 58.6°F 25.1°F 1.50 in

Cities that consider Virden their climate twin

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