Climate twins of Arnolds Park, IA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Arnolds Park'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: Arnolds Park vs its climate twin
Top match: Emery, SD
| Month | Arnolds Park | Emery | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 24.4°F | 7.5°F | 0.70 in | 26.2°F | 7.7°F | 0.59 in |
| February | 28.9°F | 11.6°F | 0.74 in | 31.5°F | 11.7°F | 0.70 in |
| March | 41.9°F | 23.6°F | 1.61 in | 43.5°F | 22.6°F | 1.25 in |
| April | 57.2°F | 35.2°F | 3.25 in | 57.2°F | 34.6°F | 2.99 in |
| May | 69.5°F | 47.7°F | 4.21 in | 69.1°F | 47.3°F | 3.97 in |
| June | 79.0°F | 58.5°F | 4.47 in | 80.1°F | 58.7°F | 4.23 in |
| July | 82.6°F | 62.4°F | 3.40 in | 84.8°F | 62.9°F | 3.41 in |
| August | 80.0°F | 60.0°F | 3.47 in | 82.3°F | 60.2°F | 3.73 in |
| September | 73.9°F | 51.8°F | 3.21 in | 74.9°F | 50.7°F | 3.03 in |
| October | 60.0°F | 38.5°F | 2.22 in | 60.6°F | 37.1°F | 2.27 in |
| November | 43.1°F | 24.5°F | 1.38 in | 44.2°F | 23.7°F | 0.94 in |
| December | 29.0°F | 13.2°F | 0.84 in | 30.4°F | 12.7°F | 0.79 in |
Cities that consider Arnolds Park their climate twin
These US cities have Arnolds Park in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Arnolds Park would feel familiar.
- Irene, SD (ranks Arnolds Park #2)
- Vilas, SD (ranks Arnolds Park #3)
- Canova, SD (ranks Arnolds Park #3)
- Carthage, SD (ranks Arnolds Park #3)
- Howard, SD (ranks Arnolds Park #3)
- McLean, NE (ranks Arnolds Park #3)
- Magnet, NE (ranks Arnolds Park #3)
- Santee, NE (ranks Arnolds Park #3)
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 →