Climate twins of Hamburg, AR

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

Top match: Shannon, MS

Month Hamburg Shannon
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 57.1°F 34.1°F 5.52 in 52.8°F 32.5°F 5.19 in
February 61.6°F 36.8°F 5.51 in 57.2°F 35.2°F 5.29 in
March 70.0°F 43.9°F 5.37 in 66.3°F 42.9°F 5.64 in
April 77.6°F 51.4°F 5.65 in 74.8°F 51.0°F 5.54 in
May 84.8°F 60.8°F 4.98 in 83.1°F 60.4°F 5.34 in
June 91.6°F 68.8°F 3.67 in 89.5°F 68.4°F 4.80 in
July 94.6°F 72.3°F 4.23 in 92.4°F 71.8°F 4.65 in
August 94.9°F 70.9°F 3.62 in 92.3°F 70.4°F 4.04 in
September 90.0°F 64.1°F 3.60 in 87.6°F 63.7°F 3.82 in
October 79.9°F 52.1°F 4.29 in 76.8°F 51.1°F 4.35 in
November 68.0°F 42.2°F 4.44 in 64.7°F 40.8°F 4.58 in
December 59.3°F 36.4°F 5.79 in 55.7°F 35.1°F 6.10 in

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 →