Climate twins of Carterville, MO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Carterville'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: Carterville vs its climate twin
Top match: Depew, OK
| Month | Carterville | Depew | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 44.8°F | 25.0°F | 1.92 in | 49.3°F | 26.1°F | 1.37 in |
| February | 50.0°F | 28.7°F | 1.98 in | 54.5°F | 29.9°F | 1.91 in |
| March | 59.8°F | 37.4°F | 3.29 in | 63.9°F | 38.7°F | 3.10 in |
| April | 69.2°F | 46.6°F | 4.99 in | 72.2°F | 46.9°F | 4.15 in |
| May | 77.0°F | 56.0°F | 6.56 in | 78.4°F | 56.5°F | 5.80 in |
| June | 85.9°F | 65.3°F | 5.60 in | 86.7°F | 64.8°F | 5.01 in |
| July | 90.3°F | 69.5°F | 3.97 in | 91.9°F | 69.1°F | 3.54 in |
| August | 90.0°F | 67.9°F | 3.36 in | 91.0°F | 66.9°F | 3.21 in |
| September | 82.0°F | 59.4°F | 4.18 in | 83.8°F | 59.2°F | 4.12 in |
| October | 70.7°F | 47.9°F | 3.80 in | 73.1°F | 47.3°F | 4.53 in |
| November | 58.4°F | 37.1°F | 3.33 in | 61.5°F | 37.2°F | 3.15 in |
| December | 47.8°F | 28.5°F | 2.60 in | 51.1°F | 28.6°F | 2.18 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 →