Climate twins of Arma, KS

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Arma'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
Olean, MO
similarity distance: 1.060 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Eldon, MO
similarity distance: 1.060 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Barnett, MO
similarity distance: 1.060 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Arma vs its climate twin

Top match: Olean, MO

Month Arma Olean
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.6°F 22.3°F 1.77 in 40.4°F 22.1°F 2.28 in
February 46.9°F 26.2°F 1.90 in 46.2°F 25.9°F 2.03 in
March 57.3°F 35.5°F 3.48 in 56.0°F 34.8°F 2.90 in
April 67.0°F 45.2°F 4.83 in 67.1°F 45.1°F 4.97 in
May 75.9°F 55.8°F 6.45 in 75.5°F 55.4°F 5.63 in
June 85.2°F 65.2°F 5.43 in 84.2°F 64.5°F 4.89 in
July 89.8°F 69.4°F 3.93 in 88.6°F 68.9°F 4.39 in
August 89.2°F 67.5°F 3.88 in 87.5°F 66.9°F 4.05 in
September 81.0°F 58.8°F 4.84 in 79.8°F 58.8°F 4.29 in
October 69.3°F 46.9°F 3.76 in 68.8°F 47.1°F 3.78 in
November 56.1°F 35.4°F 3.03 in 55.2°F 35.8°F 3.25 in
December 45.1°F 26.5°F 2.31 in 45.1°F 26.7°F 2.36 in

Cities that consider Arma their climate twin

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