Climate twins of Newkirk, OK

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

Top match: Grain Valley, MO

Month Newkirk Grain Valley
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.9°F 21.5°F 1.06 in 39.0°F 22.1°F 0.96 in
February 50.1°F 24.8°F 1.55 in 44.3°F 25.9°F 1.43 in
March 59.4°F 33.6°F 2.73 in 55.4°F 35.4°F 2.14 in
April 68.8°F 43.0°F 4.22 in 65.5°F 45.5°F 4.19 in
May 77.3°F 54.4°F 5.66 in 74.8°F 55.9°F 5.70 in
June 86.9°F 64.6°F 5.41 in 84.0°F 65.4°F 4.95 in
July 91.6°F 69.1°F 4.31 in 88.3°F 69.7°F 4.57 in
August 90.8°F 67.1°F 4.16 in 86.9°F 67.6°F 4.54 in
September 83.0°F 59.0°F 3.13 in 79.0°F 59.0°F 3.07 in
October 71.5°F 46.5°F 3.59 in 67.1°F 47.2°F 3.39 in
November 58.7°F 34.0°F 1.84 in 54.0°F 36.2°F 2.05 in
December 46.9°F 25.1°F 1.63 in 43.2°F 26.3°F 1.35 in

Cities that consider Newkirk their climate twin

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