Climate twins of Donaldson, AR

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

Top match: Garvin, OK

Month Donaldson Garvin
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.7°F 30.7°F 4.03 in 54.4°F 29.4°F 3.77 in
February 58.8°F 33.8°F 4.20 in 58.9°F 33.8°F 4.09 in
March 67.5°F 41.5°F 4.88 in 67.3°F 40.9°F 5.02 in
April 76.3°F 50.0°F 5.33 in 74.9°F 48.0°F 5.37 in
May 82.8°F 59.8°F 6.60 in 81.8°F 58.7°F 6.35 in
June 90.1°F 68.0°F 3.89 in 89.1°F 66.0°F 4.12 in
July 93.6°F 71.2°F 4.09 in 93.5°F 70.1°F 3.61 in
August 93.8°F 69.8°F 3.32 in 93.6°F 68.9°F 3.03 in
September 87.7°F 62.9°F 3.77 in 87.1°F 61.4°F 4.31 in
October 77.6°F 50.5°F 4.92 in 77.1°F 49.0°F 5.18 in
November 65.2°F 40.1°F 4.40 in 65.4°F 39.1°F 4.68 in
December 57.1°F 33.7°F 5.41 in 56.7°F 32.2°F 4.98 in

Cities that consider Donaldson their climate twin

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