Climate twins of Clifton Hill, MO

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

Top match: Mound City, KS

Month Clifton Hill Mound City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.1°F 18.3°F 1.52 in 40.8°F 20.2°F 1.32 in
February 42.5°F 22.3°F 1.84 in 45.5°F 23.9°F 1.95 in
March 53.9°F 32.1°F 2.79 in 56.3°F 33.6°F 2.65 in
April 65.1°F 42.6°F 4.04 in 65.8°F 43.1°F 4.44 in
May 75.0°F 53.7°F 5.15 in 74.4°F 53.6°F 5.33 in
June 83.9°F 63.6°F 5.54 in 83.9°F 64.2°F 5.29 in
July 87.8°F 67.1°F 4.21 in 88.5°F 68.7°F 4.60 in
August 86.7°F 64.8°F 3.64 in 87.2°F 66.3°F 3.55 in
September 80.0°F 55.9°F 3.73 in 79.4°F 56.4°F 3.97 in
October 68.0°F 44.0°F 3.49 in 68.5°F 44.6°F 3.57 in
November 53.9°F 32.9°F 2.43 in 54.9°F 33.5°F 2.71 in
December 41.9°F 23.7°F 1.64 in 44.0°F 24.2°F 1.88 in

Cities that consider Clifton Hill their climate twin

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