Climate twins of Linn Creek, MO

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

Top match: Lebanon, IL

Month Linn Creek Lebanon
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.0°F 25.3°F 2.15 in 42.9°F 24.3°F 2.56 in
February 48.7°F 28.6°F 2.05 in 48.6°F 28.0°F 2.16 in
March 59.0°F 37.1°F 2.99 in 59.2°F 36.3°F 3.44 in
April 69.1°F 46.8°F 4.98 in 70.6°F 46.0°F 4.90 in
May 76.9°F 55.7°F 5.54 in 79.1°F 56.3°F 5.05 in
June 85.0°F 65.0°F 4.16 in 87.3°F 64.5°F 4.62 in
July 89.4°F 69.5°F 3.83 in 90.2°F 67.8°F 4.03 in
August 88.3°F 68.2°F 4.20 in 89.1°F 65.3°F 3.92 in
September 81.1°F 60.5°F 4.16 in 83.3°F 56.9°F 3.35 in
October 70.5°F 49.2°F 3.42 in 72.6°F 46.7°F 3.12 in
November 58.5°F 38.9°F 2.97 in 58.1°F 36.9°F 3.60 in
December 47.9°F 29.9°F 2.12 in 46.3°F 28.3°F 2.61 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 →