Climate twins of Crocker, MO

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

Top match: Carlyle, IL

Month Crocker Carlyle
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.1°F 22.4°F 2.69 in 39.1°F 21.5°F 3.05 in
February 49.2°F 25.6°F 2.72 in 44.8°F 24.9°F 2.45 in
March 58.9°F 34.3°F 4.08 in 54.8°F 34.5°F 3.67 in
April 69.3°F 44.3°F 4.81 in 66.6°F 44.8°F 4.90 in
May 76.8°F 53.9°F 5.18 in 75.9°F 55.9°F 5.23 in
June 84.5°F 63.0°F 4.67 in 84.8°F 64.9°F 4.87 in
July 89.1°F 66.9°F 4.30 in 88.3°F 68.1°F 4.24 in
August 88.6°F 65.1°F 4.61 in 87.4°F 66.2°F 3.59 in
September 81.3°F 56.4°F 4.18 in 81.0°F 58.1°F 3.65 in
October 71.1°F 44.6°F 3.56 in 69.5°F 46.3°F 3.39 in
November 58.3°F 34.7°F 3.76 in 55.1°F 35.5°F 3.72 in
December 47.7°F 26.6°F 2.90 in 43.3°F 26.3°F 3.10 in

Cities that consider Crocker their climate twin

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