Climate twins of Brimson, MO

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

Top match: Circleville, KS

Month Brimson Circleville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 33.1°F 15.1°F 0.98 in 37.2°F 15.2°F 0.79 in
February 38.2°F 18.7°F 1.37 in 43.0°F 19.5°F 1.33 in
March 50.7°F 29.9°F 2.31 in 54.1°F 29.2°F 2.17 in
April 62.2°F 40.4°F 3.81 in 64.2°F 40.0°F 3.72 in
May 71.9°F 52.2°F 5.70 in 73.7°F 51.3°F 4.98 in
June 81.5°F 62.2°F 5.28 in 82.8°F 61.8°F 4.88 in
July 86.2°F 65.9°F 4.92 in 87.5°F 66.1°F 4.76 in
August 84.6°F 63.6°F 4.50 in 86.3°F 63.7°F 4.35 in
September 77.1°F 54.4°F 3.88 in 78.7°F 54.8°F 3.77 in
October 64.8°F 42.4°F 3.24 in 66.7°F 41.4°F 3.33 in
November 50.1°F 30.8°F 2.20 in 53.0°F 29.7°F 1.84 in
December 38.0°F 20.6°F 1.52 in 40.9°F 19.6°F 1.46 in

Cities that consider Brimson their climate twin

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