Climate twins of Star City, AR

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

Top match: Winnfield, LA

Month Star City Winnfield
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 52.3°F 33.4°F 4.68 in 57.4°F 35.6°F 5.44 in
February 57.3°F 36.8°F 4.94 in 62.3°F 38.4°F 4.50 in
March 65.8°F 44.3°F 5.81 in 70.9°F 45.8°F 6.09 in
April 74.4°F 52.0°F 6.04 in 78.1°F 52.6°F 6.30 in
May 82.1°F 61.6°F 4.96 in 84.5°F 61.3°F 4.49 in
June 88.7°F 69.2°F 3.90 in 89.9°F 68.5°F 4.21 in
July 92.1°F 72.6°F 3.69 in 92.5°F 71.7°F 4.50 in
August 92.1°F 71.3°F 3.62 in 93.2°F 70.9°F 3.44 in
September 86.9°F 64.5°F 3.16 in 88.9°F 64.4°F 3.64 in
October 76.3°F 52.5°F 4.74 in 80.0°F 52.6°F 4.61 in
November 64.8°F 43.0°F 4.92 in 67.9°F 42.5°F 4.87 in
December 55.2°F 36.1°F 6.02 in 59.1°F 38.1°F 5.60 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 →