Climate twins of Mountain View, AR

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

Top match: Sedgewickville, MO

Month Mountain View Sedgewickville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 47.6°F 28.3°F 3.49 in 45.5°F 25.3°F 3.32 in
February 52.8°F 31.7°F 3.41 in 51.1°F 28.6°F 3.33 in
March 61.2°F 39.7°F 4.99 in 60.7°F 36.4°F 4.83 in
April 70.8°F 48.0°F 5.64 in 71.7°F 46.1°F 5.75 in
May 78.1°F 57.3°F 5.63 in 78.5°F 55.5°F 5.65 in
June 86.5°F 65.8°F 3.81 in 86.4°F 63.8°F 4.04 in
July 91.1°F 69.5°F 3.82 in 89.5°F 67.7°F 4.46 in
August 90.5°F 67.7°F 3.88 in 89.0°F 66.0°F 3.90 in
September 83.6°F 59.7°F 3.54 in 83.2°F 57.9°F 3.59 in
October 72.9°F 48.6°F 4.26 in 72.9°F 46.0°F 4.14 in
November 60.5°F 39.0°F 5.11 in 58.8°F 36.0°F 4.83 in
December 50.5°F 31.1°F 4.30 in 48.5°F 28.7°F 4.03 in

Cities that consider Mountain View their climate twin

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