Climate twins of Malvern, AR

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

Top match: Lakeland, TN

Month Malvern Lakeland
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 51.8°F 29.4°F 4.24 in 49.4°F 29.9°F 4.34 in
February 56.1°F 32.2°F 4.59 in 54.1°F 32.7°F 4.77 in
March 65.0°F 40.0°F 5.55 in 63.1°F 40.1°F 5.74 in
April 73.7°F 48.1°F 6.05 in 72.7°F 49.0°F 5.85 in
May 80.6°F 58.6°F 5.53 in 81.1°F 59.1°F 5.48 in
June 88.1°F 66.5°F 4.64 in 88.4°F 67.5°F 4.71 in
July 91.9°F 70.0°F 4.21 in 91.3°F 71.0°F 4.53 in
August 91.6°F 68.4°F 3.68 in 90.7°F 69.2°F 3.39 in
September 85.7°F 62.1°F 3.95 in 85.3°F 61.9°F 3.74 in
October 74.8°F 50.2°F 4.63 in 74.6°F 49.7°F 4.20 in
November 62.1°F 39.0°F 5.04 in 62.1°F 39.1°F 4.75 in
December 53.7°F 32.1°F 5.37 in 52.4°F 32.8°F 5.68 in

Cities that consider Malvern their climate twin

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