Climate twins of Newark, MO

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

Top match: McNabb, IL

Month Newark McNabb
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.5°F 17.8°F 1.70 in 32.3°F 16.8°F 1.95 in
February 39.5°F 21.5°F 1.85 in 37.1°F 20.1°F 1.80 in
March 52.1°F 31.5°F 2.49 in 50.1°F 30.1°F 2.46 in
April 64.1°F 42.0°F 4.01 in 63.5°F 40.5°F 3.85 in
May 73.2°F 52.8°F 5.06 in 73.7°F 51.3°F 4.76 in
June 81.9°F 62.2°F 4.84 in 81.7°F 61.4°F 4.55 in
July 85.7°F 65.5°F 3.98 in 84.5°F 64.5°F 3.89 in
August 84.3°F 63.5°F 3.88 in 82.9°F 62.4°F 3.77 in
September 77.7°F 55.0°F 3.73 in 77.1°F 54.5°F 3.45 in
October 65.6°F 44.1°F 3.41 in 65.2°F 43.0°F 3.31 in
November 50.9°F 32.6°F 2.61 in 49.9°F 32.3°F 2.60 in
December 38.6°F 23.3°F 1.91 in 36.7°F 21.8°F 2.19 in

Cities that consider Newark their climate twin

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