Climate twins of Oran, MO

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

Top match: Henderson, KY

Month Oran Henderson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.0°F 26.2°F 3.51 in 41.6°F 23.9°F 3.64 in
February 48.2°F 29.7°F 3.31 in 47.1°F 27.5°F 3.11 in
March 58.1°F 37.3°F 4.69 in 57.0°F 35.4°F 4.81 in
April 69.0°F 46.8°F 5.18 in 69.0°F 45.9°F 5.12 in
May 78.1°F 57.5°F 5.27 in 76.7°F 56.0°F 5.01 in
June 86.6°F 65.9°F 3.80 in 85.1°F 64.7°F 3.65 in
July 89.2°F 69.3°F 3.87 in 87.5°F 67.2°F 4.12 in
August 88.3°F 66.4°F 3.23 in 87.5°F 65.3°F 3.22 in
September 81.8°F 57.7°F 3.61 in 81.7°F 57.0°F 3.48 in
October 70.9°F 46.3°F 3.57 in 70.3°F 46.4°F 3.45 in
November 56.8°F 36.7°F 4.25 in 56.6°F 35.5°F 3.97 in
December 46.3°F 29.8°F 3.62 in 45.5°F 28.5°F 3.98 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 →