Climate twins of Caney, OK

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

Top match: Hoot Owl, OK

Month Caney Hoot Owl
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.2°F 27.5°F 2.08 in 48.1°F 26.2°F 2.27 in
February 56.0°F 31.8°F 2.51 in 53.0°F 29.9°F 2.29 in
March 64.6°F 40.0°F 3.81 in 61.9°F 37.9°F 3.71 in
April 72.7°F 48.0°F 4.09 in 70.5°F 47.4°F 4.64 in
May 79.6°F 58.7°F 6.96 in 77.9°F 57.8°F 6.33 in
June 88.4°F 67.2°F 4.77 in 86.0°F 66.9°F 5.05 in
July 94.0°F 70.7°F 3.18 in 91.0°F 71.3°F 3.75 in
August 94.5°F 69.5°F 3.17 in 90.7°F 69.7°F 3.80 in
September 87.0°F 61.9°F 4.16 in 83.3°F 61.6°F 4.43 in
October 75.7°F 49.5°F 4.30 in 72.9°F 50.4°F 4.14 in
November 62.9°F 38.4°F 3.16 in 60.8°F 38.5°F 3.67 in
December 54.0°F 30.1°F 3.49 in 50.8°F 30.2°F 2.53 in

Cities that consider Caney their climate twin

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