Climate twins of Dell, AR

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

Top match: Plumerville, AR

Month Dell Plumerville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.3°F 29.8°F 3.85 in 50.0°F 29.1°F 3.64 in
February 50.5°F 33.5°F 4.13 in 55.2°F 31.8°F 3.81 in
March 59.6°F 41.6°F 4.81 in 63.8°F 39.5°F 5.06 in
April 70.6°F 51.4°F 5.40 in 72.9°F 48.1°F 5.29 in
May 79.7°F 61.3°F 5.90 in 80.2°F 58.2°F 5.52 in
June 88.0°F 69.7°F 3.76 in 88.3°F 67.3°F 3.56 in
July 90.1°F 72.5°F 4.00 in 92.5°F 70.9°F 3.82 in
August 89.0°F 70.8°F 3.55 in 92.6°F 68.8°F 3.69 in
September 83.4°F 63.5°F 2.76 in 85.9°F 61.0°F 3.30 in
October 72.5°F 51.9°F 4.07 in 75.1°F 49.0°F 3.93 in
November 59.1°F 41.4°F 4.28 in 62.6°F 38.7°F 4.85 in
December 48.9°F 33.5°F 5.07 in 52.5°F 31.4°F 4.73 in

Cities that consider Dell their climate twin

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