Climate twins of Dardanelle, AR

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

Top match: Lake City, AR

Month Dardanelle Lake City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.1°F 29.1°F 3.56 in 46.8°F 30.5°F 3.52 in
February 56.4°F 32.5°F 3.34 in 51.6°F 33.6°F 3.79 in
March 65.2°F 40.3°F 4.58 in 60.9°F 41.2°F 4.73 in
April 74.2°F 49.0°F 5.15 in 71.3°F 50.1°F 5.15 in
May 81.3°F 59.0°F 5.44 in 80.7°F 60.0°F 5.21 in
June 89.0°F 67.3°F 3.65 in 89.6°F 68.3°F 3.05 in
July 93.4°F 70.8°F 3.62 in 91.2°F 72.3°F 3.69 in
August 93.1°F 69.3°F 3.35 in 90.0°F 70.0°F 3.41 in
September 86.5°F 61.8°F 3.53 in 84.2°F 62.3°F 3.30 in
October 76.0°F 50.3°F 4.00 in 73.7°F 50.6°F 3.81 in
November 62.4°F 39.2°F 4.79 in 59.9°F 40.1°F 4.40 in
December 53.0°F 32.1°F 4.52 in 49.6°F 33.4°F 4.45 in

Cities that consider Dardanelle their climate twin

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