Climate twins of Mission Hill, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Mission Hill'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: Mission Hill vs its climate twin
Top match: Gregory, SD
| Month | Mission Hill | Gregory | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 30.0°F | 10.4°F | 0.65 in | 31.6°F | 10.1°F | 0.55 in |
| February | 34.9°F | 14.2°F | 0.91 in | 35.9°F | 13.1°F | 0.75 in |
| March | 47.1°F | 24.6°F | 1.60 in | 46.8°F | 22.5°F | 1.34 in |
| April | 60.0°F | 35.4°F | 3.36 in | 57.6°F | 33.3°F | 3.12 in |
| May | 71.9°F | 47.7°F | 3.68 in | 68.8°F | 45.0°F | 4.13 in |
| June | 82.4°F | 58.9°F | 4.03 in | 79.6°F | 55.9°F | 4.18 in |
| July | 87.1°F | 63.8°F | 3.46 in | 86.6°F | 61.7°F | 2.99 in |
| August | 84.8°F | 61.5°F | 3.26 in | 84.7°F | 59.3°F | 3.14 in |
| September | 77.5°F | 52.1°F | 2.85 in | 76.7°F | 49.6°F | 2.41 in |
| October | 63.3°F | 38.5°F | 2.56 in | 61.6°F | 35.7°F | 2.36 in |
| November | 47.2°F | 25.3°F | 1.27 in | 46.8°F | 23.0°F | 0.95 in |
| December | 34.0°F | 14.9°F | 1.03 in | 34.5°F | 13.8°F | 0.74 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 →