Climate twins of Arrow Rock, MO

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

Top match: Milton, IL

Month Arrow Rock Milton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.8°F 18.3°F 1.98 in 36.5°F 18.5°F 2.03 in
February 43.0°F 22.6°F 2.10 in 41.9°F 22.3°F 2.14 in
March 54.4°F 32.4°F 2.93 in 53.0°F 31.5°F 2.95 in
April 65.2°F 42.9°F 4.41 in 65.8°F 42.4°F 4.14 in
May 74.6°F 54.0°F 4.87 in 75.4°F 53.9°F 4.83 in
June 83.2°F 63.4°F 4.64 in 84.1°F 63.0°F 5.01 in
July 87.2°F 67.1°F 4.39 in 87.5°F 66.1°F 4.10 in
August 86.3°F 64.8°F 4.03 in 86.5°F 63.7°F 3.43 in
September 79.0°F 55.9°F 4.10 in 80.1°F 54.8°F 3.61 in
October 67.5°F 43.7°F 3.45 in 67.9°F 43.8°F 3.01 in
November 54.0°F 33.1°F 2.70 in 53.8°F 33.3°F 2.92 in
December 42.4°F 23.4°F 1.88 in 41.5°F 23.7°F 2.33 in

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 →