Climate twins of Overland Park, KS
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Overland Park'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: Overland Park vs its climate twin
Top match: Callao, MO
| Month | Overland Park | Callao | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 38.7°F | 20.0°F | 1.28 in | 35.3°F | 18.9°F | 1.56 in |
| February | 44.3°F | 23.9°F | 1.73 in | 41.0°F | 23.1°F | 2.07 in |
| March | 54.9°F | 33.7°F | 2.48 in | 52.7°F | 33.2°F | 2.90 in |
| April | 65.1°F | 43.9°F | 4.12 in | 64.2°F | 43.5°F | 4.32 in |
| May | 74.5°F | 55.5°F | 5.26 in | 74.1°F | 54.7°F | 5.44 in |
| June | 83.6°F | 64.9°F | 5.23 in | 83.3°F | 63.9°F | 5.50 in |
| July | 88.2°F | 69.4°F | 4.75 in | 87.5°F | 68.1°F | 4.25 in |
| August | 86.8°F | 66.9°F | 4.46 in | 86.3°F | 65.8°F | 3.82 in |
| September | 79.1°F | 58.4°F | 4.25 in | 79.1°F | 57.1°F | 3.87 in |
| October | 67.7°F | 46.7°F | 3.05 in | 66.8°F | 45.4°F | 3.45 in |
| November | 54.3°F | 34.6°F | 2.37 in | 52.2°F | 33.9°F | 2.74 in |
| December | 42.5°F | 24.6°F | 1.75 in | 40.2°F | 24.0°F | 2.01 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 →