Climate twins of Wagon Mound, NM

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

Top match: Fountain, CO

Month Wagon Mound Fountain
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.1°F 14.2°F 0.40 in 45.0°F 18.5°F 0.29 in
February 53.9°F 16.9°F 0.60 in 46.5°F 20.2°F 0.32 in
March 60.3°F 22.4°F 0.69 in 54.9°F 27.3°F 0.79 in
April 67.4°F 28.8°F 0.79 in 61.0°F 34.0°F 1.45 in
May 75.2°F 37.7°F 1.50 in 70.7°F 43.5°F 1.99 in
June 85.0°F 46.3°F 1.71 in 81.6°F 52.8°F 2.27 in
July 87.7°F 52.1°F 3.07 in 86.5°F 58.2°F 3.12 in
August 85.3°F 50.6°F 2.75 in 83.6°F 56.6°F 2.96 in
September 79.9°F 43.2°F 2.10 in 77.1°F 48.9°F 1.35 in
October 70.7°F 31.8°F 1.21 in 64.7°F 36.6°F 0.77 in
November 60.4°F 21.4°F 0.53 in 52.9°F 26.0°F 0.37 in
December 50.7°F 14.9°F 0.52 in 44.6°F 18.7°F 0.23 in

Cities that consider Wagon Mound their climate twin

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