Climate twins of Cassville, MO

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

Top match: Licking, MO

Month Cassville Licking
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.6°F 23.2°F 2.50 in 41.9°F 21.4°F 2.81 in
February 48.9°F 26.3°F 2.32 in 47.0°F 25.2°F 2.71 in
March 58.0°F 35.0°F 3.88 in 56.4°F 33.7°F 4.12 in
April 67.3°F 43.5°F 5.00 in 67.4°F 43.3°F 4.80 in
May 74.6°F 53.8°F 6.18 in 75.5°F 53.4°F 5.54 in
June 82.7°F 62.1°F 4.77 in 83.4°F 62.4°F 4.54 in
July 87.0°F 66.2°F 4.20 in 88.0°F 66.6°F 3.48 in
August 86.8°F 64.6°F 3.27 in 87.3°F 64.7°F 4.04 in
September 79.6°F 56.0°F 4.56 in 79.7°F 56.2°F 4.20 in
October 69.6°F 45.8°F 3.77 in 68.6°F 44.4°F 3.34 in
November 57.2°F 35.0°F 3.87 in 55.6°F 34.3°F 4.09 in
December 46.9°F 26.5°F 3.09 in 45.2°F 25.7°F 2.87 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 →