Climate twins of Knoxville, AR

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

Top match: Marmaduke, AR

Month Knoxville Marmaduke
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 48.2°F 29.3°F 3.67 in 45.7°F 28.2°F 3.89 in
February 53.3°F 32.9°F 3.29 in 50.4°F 31.4°F 4.03 in
March 62.2°F 40.4°F 4.53 in 59.5°F 39.7°F 4.88 in
April 71.2°F 48.9°F 4.81 in 70.2°F 49.3°F 5.19 in
May 78.9°F 58.6°F 5.45 in 78.9°F 59.3°F 5.14 in
June 86.9°F 67.4°F 4.36 in 87.3°F 67.8°F 3.56 in
July 91.5°F 71.3°F 4.24 in 89.8°F 71.0°F 4.24 in
August 91.5°F 70.3°F 3.79 in 88.9°F 69.1°F 3.84 in
September 84.5°F 62.9°F 3.48 in 83.1°F 61.5°F 3.31 in
October 73.3°F 51.1°F 4.17 in 72.6°F 49.6°F 4.40 in
November 60.5°F 40.4°F 5.06 in 59.0°F 39.0°F 4.64 in
December 50.6°F 32.3°F 4.12 in 48.7°F 31.7°F 4.62 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 →