Climate twins of Parkdale, AR

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

Top match: Starkville, MS

Month Parkdale Starkville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 52.8°F 32.6°F 5.68 in 54.1°F 33.2°F 5.48 in
February 56.9°F 35.7°F 6.04 in 58.6°F 36.2°F 6.18 in
March 65.1°F 43.7°F 5.10 in 66.8°F 43.3°F 5.37 in
April 74.0°F 52.2°F 5.72 in 75.0°F 51.3°F 6.07 in
May 81.9°F 61.5°F 4.91 in 82.5°F 61.0°F 4.23 in
June 88.4°F 69.3°F 3.42 in 88.8°F 69.0°F 4.59 in
July 90.6°F 72.1°F 4.29 in 91.7°F 72.2°F 4.51 in
August 91.2°F 70.8°F 3.64 in 91.7°F 70.7°F 4.21 in
September 86.8°F 64.2°F 3.41 in 86.8°F 64.3°F 3.74 in
October 76.7°F 52.2°F 4.25 in 77.0°F 51.7°F 3.86 in
November 64.6°F 41.4°F 4.38 in 65.4°F 41.5°F 4.42 in
December 54.6°F 35.0°F 5.56 in 56.9°F 35.9°F 5.32 in

Cities that consider Parkdale their climate twin

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