Climate twins of Sugar Creek, MO
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Sugar Creek'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: Sugar Creek vs its climate twin
Top match: Leonard, MO
| Month | Sugar Creek | Leonard | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 37.6°F | 19.2°F | 1.50 in | 35.7°F | 17.1°F | 1.77 in |
| February | 43.0°F | 23.1°F | 1.86 in | 40.9°F | 20.8°F | 2.06 in |
| March | 54.5°F | 32.6°F | 2.88 in | 52.7°F | 30.6°F | 2.88 in |
| April | 64.6°F | 42.6°F | 4.43 in | 64.4°F | 41.0°F | 4.25 in |
| May | 73.9°F | 53.7°F | 5.99 in | 73.7°F | 52.3°F | 5.26 in |
| June | 82.9°F | 63.5°F | 5.28 in | 82.9°F | 61.9°F | 5.29 in |
| July | 86.9°F | 67.8°F | 5.11 in | 86.6°F | 65.6°F | 4.53 in |
| August | 86.0°F | 65.7°F | 5.06 in | 85.0°F | 62.9°F | 4.22 in |
| September | 78.4°F | 57.0°F | 4.77 in | 78.8°F | 53.9°F | 3.90 in |
| October | 66.5°F | 45.1°F | 3.54 in | 66.8°F | 42.7°F | 3.29 in |
| November | 53.0°F | 33.5°F | 2.40 in | 52.4°F | 31.2°F | 2.64 in |
| December | 41.8°F | 23.9°F | 1.84 in | 40.2°F | 22.5°F | 1.99 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 →