Climate twins of Mineral Springs, AR

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

Top match: West Memphis, AR

Month Mineral Springs West Memphis
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 54.0°F 31.7°F 3.95 in 48.5°F 31.1°F 4.40 in
February 58.5°F 35.0°F 4.24 in 53.6°F 34.1°F 4.39 in
March 66.5°F 42.1°F 5.05 in 62.1°F 42.3°F 5.79 in
April 74.7°F 49.5°F 5.74 in 71.9°F 51.3°F 5.84 in
May 81.7°F 59.8°F 6.15 in 80.4°F 61.2°F 5.94 in
June 89.3°F 68.0°F 4.24 in 88.2°F 69.4°F 4.01 in
July 93.4°F 71.4°F 4.10 in 90.6°F 72.7°F 4.21 in
August 93.9°F 70.3°F 3.18 in 90.3°F 71.1°F 3.10 in
September 87.9°F 63.5°F 3.74 in 85.4°F 64.1°F 3.32 in
October 77.2°F 51.4°F 5.02 in 74.7°F 51.8°F 4.44 in
November 65.1°F 41.0°F 4.44 in 61.7°F 41.6°F 4.83 in
December 56.4°F 34.3°F 5.12 in 51.6°F 34.5°F 5.63 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 →