Climate twins of Sparkman, AR

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

Top match: West Memphis, AR

Month Sparkman West Memphis
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 52.2°F 30.6°F 4.43 in 48.5°F 31.1°F 4.40 in
February 57.4°F 33.7°F 4.73 in 53.6°F 34.1°F 4.39 in
March 65.8°F 41.0°F 5.64 in 62.1°F 42.3°F 5.79 in
April 74.4°F 48.7°F 5.89 in 71.9°F 51.3°F 5.84 in
May 81.0°F 58.8°F 6.26 in 80.4°F 61.2°F 5.94 in
June 88.0°F 67.1°F 3.94 in 88.2°F 69.4°F 4.01 in
July 91.8°F 70.7°F 3.88 in 90.6°F 72.7°F 4.21 in
August 90.9°F 69.8°F 3.25 in 90.3°F 71.1°F 3.10 in
September 85.3°F 62.6°F 3.56 in 85.4°F 64.1°F 3.32 in
October 73.9°F 49.7°F 4.86 in 74.7°F 51.8°F 4.44 in
November 63.6°F 39.8°F 4.24 in 61.7°F 41.6°F 4.83 in
December 54.8°F 33.5°F 5.51 in 51.6°F 34.5°F 5.63 in

Cities that consider Sparkman their climate twin

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