Climate twins of Bellefonte, AR

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

Top match: Thebes, IL

Month Bellefonte Thebes
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 46.8°F 28.1°F 2.96 in 43.0°F 26.2°F 3.51 in
February 51.6°F 30.0°F 2.80 in 48.2°F 29.7°F 3.31 in
March 60.0°F 38.8°F 4.20 in 58.1°F 37.3°F 4.69 in
April 69.2°F 47.3°F 5.17 in 69.0°F 46.8°F 5.18 in
May 76.9°F 56.8°F 5.54 in 78.1°F 57.5°F 5.27 in
June 85.0°F 64.8°F 4.17 in 86.6°F 65.9°F 3.80 in
July 89.4°F 68.3°F 3.74 in 89.2°F 69.3°F 3.87 in
August 89.5°F 67.0°F 3.36 in 88.3°F 66.4°F 3.23 in
September 81.8°F 59.5°F 4.40 in 81.8°F 57.7°F 3.61 in
October 71.3°F 48.5°F 4.02 in 70.9°F 46.3°F 3.57 in
November 59.3°F 37.7°F 3.88 in 56.8°F 36.7°F 4.25 in
December 49.1°F 30.7°F 3.22 in 46.3°F 29.8°F 3.62 in

Cities that consider Bellefonte their climate twin

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