Climate twins of Rolla, KS

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Rolla'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.

Rank 1 closest
Friona, TX
similarity distance: 0.970 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Bovina, TX
similarity distance: 0.970 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Hereford, TX
similarity distance: 1.059 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Rolla vs its climate twin

Top match: Friona, TX

Month Rolla Friona
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 48.4°F 19.1°F 0.39 in 50.9°F 22.4°F 0.70 in
February 52.6°F 21.7°F 0.35 in 56.0°F 25.1°F 0.48 in
March 60.9°F 28.0°F 0.98 in 64.3°F 31.7°F 1.15 in
April 69.9°F 36.4°F 1.32 in 72.0°F 38.4°F 1.00 in
May 79.3°F 48.1°F 2.09 in 80.3°F 49.0°F 2.14 in
June 89.7°F 59.1°F 2.64 in 89.4°F 59.2°F 2.49 in
July 94.5°F 63.9°F 2.74 in 91.2°F 63.4°F 2.64 in
August 91.3°F 62.0°F 2.87 in 89.9°F 62.1°F 3.13 in
September 84.9°F 53.3°F 1.54 in 83.5°F 54.6°F 2.03 in
October 72.7°F 39.7°F 1.70 in 73.0°F 42.3°F 1.98 in
November 59.7°F 28.1°F 0.42 in 60.3°F 30.5°F 0.75 in
December 48.9°F 20.5°F 0.63 in 51.0°F 23.6°F 0.80 in

Cities that consider Rolla their climate twin

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