Climate twins of Bowling Green, MO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Bowling Green'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: Bowling Green vs its climate twin
Top match: Urbana, IL
| Month | Bowling Green | Urbana | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 35.8°F | 18.5°F | 2.44 in | 33.5°F | 17.9°F | 2.31 in |
| February | 41.2°F | 22.5°F | 2.06 in | 38.4°F | 21.2°F | 2.18 in |
| March | 52.0°F | 32.3°F | 2.73 in | 50.4°F | 31.2°F | 2.77 in |
| April | 64.5°F | 43.0°F | 4.46 in | 63.1°F | 41.6°F | 3.94 in |
| May | 73.2°F | 53.3°F | 4.67 in | 73.8°F | 52.7°F | 4.78 in |
| June | 81.8°F | 62.3°F | 4.55 in | 82.7°F | 62.1°F | 4.58 in |
| July | 85.9°F | 66.5°F | 4.32 in | 85.2°F | 65.2°F | 4.49 in |
| August | 84.8°F | 64.6°F | 3.57 in | 84.0°F | 63.6°F | 3.54 in |
| September | 77.9°F | 56.0°F | 3.89 in | 78.8°F | 55.6°F | 3.37 in |
| October | 66.6°F | 44.9°F | 2.95 in | 65.8°F | 43.9°F | 3.35 in |
| November | 52.7°F | 33.7°F | 2.90 in | 50.7°F | 32.2°F | 3.21 in |
| December | 40.4°F | 23.9°F | 2.07 in | 38.5°F | 23.6°F | 2.40 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 →