Climate twins of Ridgeway, MO

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

Top match: Franklin, IA

Month Ridgeway Franklin
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.0°F 15.6°F 1.00 in 32.8°F 15.3°F 1.48 in
February 39.0°F 19.4°F 1.58 in 37.9°F 18.9°F 1.89 in
March 51.6°F 29.6°F 2.07 in 50.5°F 29.4°F 2.56 in
April 62.7°F 40.6°F 4.01 in 63.3°F 40.0°F 3.72 in
May 72.7°F 51.2°F 5.53 in 73.2°F 52.1°F 5.01 in
June 82.2°F 61.7°F 5.19 in 83.1°F 61.8°F 4.98 in
July 86.6°F 66.1°F 4.96 in 86.4°F 65.3°F 4.24 in
August 85.3°F 63.7°F 4.20 in 85.2°F 63.3°F 3.88 in
September 77.7°F 55.0°F 3.90 in 78.6°F 54.3°F 3.92 in
October 65.3°F 43.1°F 3.05 in 65.4°F 43.0°F 3.09 in
November 50.7°F 30.8°F 1.98 in 50.6°F 31.0°F 2.50 in
December 38.4°F 21.0°F 1.66 in 37.7°F 20.9°F 1.96 in

Cities that consider Ridgeway their climate twin

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