Climate twins of Longtown, MO

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

Top match: Norwood, MO

Month Longtown Norwood
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.0°F 21.3°F 2.74 in 41.6°F 21.4°F 2.73 in
February 46.2°F 24.6°F 2.77 in 46.5°F 25.3°F 2.76 in
March 56.1°F 32.7°F 3.82 in 56.3°F 34.0°F 4.25 in
April 67.5°F 42.1°F 5.53 in 66.0°F 43.7°F 5.39 in
May 76.5°F 52.8°F 5.71 in 74.5°F 54.3°F 5.52 in
June 85.2°F 62.3°F 4.34 in 82.6°F 63.2°F 4.16 in
July 88.3°F 66.1°F 3.93 in 87.7°F 67.2°F 4.40 in
August 87.2°F 63.5°F 3.33 in 87.4°F 65.6°F 3.35 in
September 80.7°F 54.8°F 3.33 in 79.8°F 57.0°F 4.07 in
October 69.6°F 43.3°F 3.39 in 68.6°F 45.6°F 3.62 in
November 55.6°F 32.9°F 4.18 in 55.5°F 34.5°F 3.97 in
December 44.8°F 25.4°F 3.16 in 44.9°F 26.2°F 2.87 in

Cities that consider Longtown their climate twin

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