Climate twins of Linneus, MO

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

Top match: West Point, IL

Month Linneus West Point
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.0°F 17.8°F 1.40 in 33.9°F 17.7°F 1.67 in
February 40.3°F 22.0°F 1.62 in 38.9°F 21.7°F 1.98 in
March 52.9°F 32.1°F 2.80 in 50.9°F 31.9°F 2.57 in
April 63.5°F 42.4°F 3.59 in 63.4°F 42.1°F 4.11 in
May 72.5°F 52.6°F 5.23 in 73.7°F 53.4°F 5.28 in
June 81.7°F 62.3°F 5.09 in 83.0°F 63.2°F 4.85 in
July 85.2°F 65.6°F 4.99 in 86.3°F 66.5°F 4.29 in
August 84.3°F 63.8°F 4.09 in 84.9°F 63.8°F 4.19 in
September 77.3°F 55.4°F 4.19 in 78.8°F 55.5°F 3.67 in
October 65.1°F 43.5°F 3.07 in 66.0°F 44.1°F 3.16 in
November 51.4°F 32.2°F 2.35 in 51.3°F 32.8°F 2.45 in
December 39.3°F 22.6°F 1.65 in 39.1°F 23.6°F 1.89 in

Cities that consider Linneus their climate twin

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