Climate twins of Des Moines, NM

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

Top match: Colorado Springs, CO

Month	Des Moines			Colorado Springs
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	46.1°F	14.9°F	0.51 in	45.0°F	18.5°F	0.29 in
February	48.8°F	18.0°F	0.50 in	46.5°F	20.2°F	0.32 in
March	56.7°F	24.3°F	0.98 in	54.9°F	27.3°F	0.79 in
April	64.1°F	31.2°F	0.96 in	61.0°F	34.0°F	1.45 in
May	73.6°F	39.5°F	1.46 in	70.7°F	43.5°F	1.99 in
June	82.6°F	49.1°F	2.31 in	81.6°F	52.8°F	2.27 in
July	85.6°F	54.0°F	3.60 in	86.5°F	58.2°F	3.12 in
August	82.8°F	52.6°F	2.87 in	83.6°F	56.6°F	2.96 in
September	77.4°F	46.0°F	1.93 in	77.1°F	48.9°F	1.35 in
October	66.9°F	33.2°F	1.10 in	64.7°F	36.6°F	0.77 in
November	54.5°F	22.3°F	0.62 in	52.9°F	26.0°F	0.37 in
December	45.9°F	14.4°F	0.76 in	44.6°F	18.7°F	0.23 in

Cities that consider Des Moines their climate twin

These US cities have Des Moines in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Des Moines would feel familiar.

Colorado Springs, CO (ranks Des Moines #3)

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 →