Climate twins of Lake Waukomis, MO

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

Top match: Cassoday, KS

Month Lake Waukomis Cassoday
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.4°F 19.5°F 1.16 in 41.1°F 18.9°F 0.75 in
February 43.6°F 23.6°F 1.48 in 46.1°F 22.6°F 1.40 in
March 55.4°F 33.6°F 2.36 in 56.4°F 31.6°F 2.29 in
April 65.5°F 43.7°F 4.05 in 66.5°F 41.9°F 3.77 in
May 75.0°F 54.3°F 5.32 in 74.7°F 53.2°F 5.27 in
June 84.2°F 64.0°F 5.25 in 84.3°F 63.3°F 5.61 in
July 88.3°F 68.1°F 4.58 in 89.7°F 67.9°F 4.43 in
August 87.1°F 66.3°F 4.24 in 88.7°F 65.9°F 3.78 in
September 79.2°F 57.5°F 4.04 in 81.2°F 57.4°F 3.50 in
October 67.2°F 45.6°F 3.25 in 69.3°F 44.5°F 2.96 in
November 53.5°F 33.6°F 2.00 in 55.7°F 32.1°F 1.97 in
December 42.3°F 23.9°F 1.57 in 44.0°F 22.9°F 1.21 in

Cities that consider Lake Waukomis their climate twin

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