Climate twins of Drakesville, IA

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

Top match: Sheridan, MO

Month Drakesville Sheridan
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 31.9°F 14.8°F 1.23 in 32.6°F 13.5°F 0.90 in
February 36.8°F 18.5°F 1.60 in 38.5°F 17.8°F 1.36 in
March 49.5°F 29.5°F 2.23 in 51.4°F 28.9°F 2.21 in
April 61.9°F 40.5°F 3.70 in 62.5°F 39.9°F 3.73 in
May 72.0°F 52.2°F 5.51 in 71.3°F 50.7°F 5.56 in
June 81.2°F 62.2°F 5.36 in 81.6°F 61.8°F 5.29 in
July 85.5°F 66.3°F 4.45 in 85.9°F 66.6°F 4.78 in
August 84.1°F 63.9°F 4.74 in 84.4°F 63.4°F 4.32 in
September 77.1°F 54.9°F 3.95 in 77.0°F 54.4°F 3.65 in
October 64.4°F 43.2°F 2.70 in 64.7°F 41.8°F 2.99 in
November 49.6°F 31.1°F 2.12 in 49.9°F 29.0°F 1.97 in
December 37.0°F 20.7°F 1.51 in 37.6°F 19.4°F 1.50 in

Cities that consider Drakesville their climate twin

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