Climate twins of Agar, SD

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Agar'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
Cavour, SD
similarity distance: 0.733 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Lemmon, SD
similarity distance: 0.951 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Bison, SD
similarity distance: 1.022 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Agar vs its climate twin

Top match: Cavour, SD

Month Agar Cavour
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 26.5°F 7.4°F 0.54 in 25.8°F 6.2°F 0.58 in
February 31.0°F 10.9°F 0.79 in 30.8°F 10.2°F 0.75 in
March 44.2°F 22.3°F 0.97 in 43.7°F 22.1°F 1.15 in
April 57.8°F 33.2°F 1.96 in 57.9°F 33.6°F 2.52 in
May 69.3°F 44.9°F 3.17 in 70.0°F 45.9°F 3.15 in
June 79.6°F 55.6°F 3.63 in 80.0°F 56.7°F 3.89 in
July 87.4°F 61.3°F 2.52 in 85.7°F 61.6°F 2.83 in
August 85.2°F 58.9°F 2.51 in 83.4°F 59.2°F 2.59 in
September 76.5°F 49.4°F 1.78 in 75.7°F 49.5°F 2.43 in
October 59.7°F 35.9°F 1.93 in 60.2°F 35.5°F 1.95 in
November 43.3°F 22.6°F 0.68 in 43.9°F 22.2°F 0.82 in
December 29.9°F 11.6°F 0.59 in 30.2°F 11.0°F 0.66 in

Cities that consider Agar their climate twin

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