Climate twins of Des Arc, MO

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

Top match: Henderson, KY

Month Des Arc Henderson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.3°F 23.0°F 3.40 in 41.6°F 23.9°F 3.64 in
February 48.4°F 27.0°F 3.24 in 47.1°F 27.5°F 3.11 in
March 58.3°F 34.8°F 4.69 in 57.0°F 35.4°F 4.81 in
April 69.2°F 44.3°F 5.30 in 69.0°F 45.9°F 5.12 in
May 77.1°F 54.4°F 5.05 in 76.7°F 56.0°F 5.01 in
June 85.3°F 63.3°F 3.91 in 85.1°F 64.7°F 3.65 in
July 89.4°F 67.7°F 4.64 in 87.5°F 67.2°F 4.12 in
August 88.0°F 65.6°F 3.25 in 87.5°F 65.3°F 3.22 in
September 80.3°F 57.1°F 3.84 in 81.7°F 57.0°F 3.48 in
October 70.1°F 44.8°F 3.44 in 70.3°F 46.4°F 3.45 in
November 57.1°F 34.8°F 4.61 in 56.6°F 35.5°F 3.97 in
December 45.9°F 27.2°F 3.36 in 45.5°F 28.5°F 3.98 in

Cities that consider Des Arc their climate twin

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