Climate twins of Lonoke, AR

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

Top match: Blytheville, AR

Month Lonoke Blytheville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 49.5°F 31.1°F 3.84 in 45.3°F 29.8°F 3.85 in
February 54.3°F 34.3°F 4.02 in 50.5°F 33.5°F 4.13 in
March 63.1°F 41.8°F 5.05 in 59.6°F 41.6°F 4.81 in
April 72.5°F 50.6°F 5.50 in 70.6°F 51.4°F 5.40 in
May 80.0°F 59.9°F 4.80 in 79.7°F 61.3°F 5.90 in
June 86.9°F 67.7°F 3.36 in 88.0°F 69.7°F 3.76 in
July 89.5°F 70.5°F 3.53 in 90.1°F 72.5°F 4.00 in
August 88.8°F 68.9°F 2.98 in 89.0°F 70.8°F 3.55 in
September 83.5°F 61.7°F 3.14 in 83.4°F 63.5°F 2.76 in
October 73.8°F 50.7°F 4.39 in 72.5°F 51.9°F 4.07 in
November 61.0°F 40.6°F 4.46 in 59.1°F 41.4°F 4.28 in
December 51.9°F 33.8°F 5.46 in 48.9°F 33.5°F 5.07 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 →