Climate twins of Pickering, MO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Pickering'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: Pickering vs its climate twin
Top match: Unionville, IA
| Month | Pickering | Unionville | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 33.8°F | 13.9°F | 0.89 in | 31.3°F | 12.7°F | 1.09 in |
| February | 38.9°F | 17.9°F | 1.20 in | 36.6°F | 15.6°F | 1.49 in |
| March | 51.5°F | 28.9°F | 2.31 in | 49.6°F | 27.9°F | 2.03 in |
| April | 63.2°F | 39.2°F | 3.98 in | 61.8°F | 38.7°F | 3.93 in |
| May | 73.3°F | 51.5°F | 5.47 in | 71.4°F | 51.3°F | 5.36 in |
| June | 83.0°F | 61.6°F | 4.97 in | 80.9°F | 61.4°F | 5.24 in |
| July | 86.7°F | 65.6°F | 5.33 in | 85.0°F | 65.6°F | 4.57 in |
| August | 85.2°F | 62.9°F | 4.22 in | 83.5°F | 63.5°F | 4.62 in |
| September | 78.4°F | 53.7°F | 3.52 in | 76.6°F | 53.8°F | 3.81 in |
| October | 66.1°F | 41.3°F | 3.01 in | 64.6°F | 42.0°F | 2.93 in |
| November | 50.7°F | 29.2°F | 1.98 in | 49.7°F | 29.4°F | 2.04 in |
| December | 38.5°F | 19.2°F | 1.49 in | 37.2°F | 19.1°F | 1.46 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 →