Climate twins of Southwest City, MO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Southwest City'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: Southwest City vs its climate twin
Top match: Boswell, OK
| Month | Southwest City | Boswell | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 48.8°F | 28.7°F | 2.81 in | 53.6°F | 28.8°F | 2.75 in |
| February | 53.9°F | 32.5°F | 2.66 in | 57.7°F | 33.1°F | 2.90 in |
| March | 63.4°F | 40.8°F | 3.92 in | 66.2°F | 40.1°F | 4.10 in |
| April | 72.5°F | 49.0°F | 4.82 in | 73.7°F | 47.9°F | 4.68 in |
| May | 79.5°F | 57.5°F | 6.21 in | 80.0°F | 57.8°F | 5.89 in |
| June | 87.4°F | 65.8°F | 4.65 in | 88.2°F | 65.8°F | 4.62 in |
| July | 92.5°F | 69.2°F | 3.93 in | 92.5°F | 69.3°F | 3.17 in |
| August | 92.1°F | 67.8°F | 3.47 in | 93.1°F | 68.9°F | 2.88 in |
| September | 84.2°F | 60.4°F | 4.45 in | 86.9°F | 60.7°F | 4.03 in |
| October | 72.9°F | 49.9°F | 4.56 in | 75.4°F | 48.7°F | 4.59 in |
| November | 60.7°F | 39.8°F | 3.93 in | 64.6°F | 38.7°F | 3.99 in |
| December | 51.1°F | 31.9°F | 3.17 in | 54.7°F | 31.7°F | 4.03 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 →