Climate twins of Ash Grove, MO

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

Top match: Maryland Heights, MO

Month Ash Grove Maryland Heights
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.9°F 23.6°F 2.07 in 40.2°F 21.9°F 2.56 in
February 48.8°F 27.0°F 2.09 in 45.5°F 25.4°F 2.19 in
March 59.0°F 35.3°F 3.46 in 55.5°F 34.6°F 3.59 in
April 68.8°F 44.7°F 4.49 in 67.3°F 45.5°F 4.59 in
May 77.3°F 55.2°F 5.58 in 76.7°F 56.4°F 5.22 in
June 86.2°F 63.9°F 4.87 in 85.1°F 65.3°F 4.28 in
July 90.5°F 68.0°F 3.81 in 88.8°F 69.2°F 3.85 in
August 90.2°F 65.8°F 3.46 in 87.5°F 67.1°F 3.54 in
September 82.6°F 58.3°F 4.41 in 80.9°F 58.4°F 3.31 in
October 70.6°F 45.9°F 3.27 in 69.5°F 46.4°F 3.20 in
November 57.5°F 35.8°F 3.33 in 56.0°F 35.7°F 3.47 in
December 47.4°F 27.8°F 2.63 in 44.7°F 26.7°F 2.54 in

Cities that consider Ash Grove their climate twin

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