Climate twins of Sweet Springs, MO

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

Top match: West Point, IL

Month Sweet Springs West Point
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.4°F 17.4°F 1.48 in 33.9°F 17.7°F 1.67 in
February 44.4°F 22.2°F 1.96 in 38.9°F 21.7°F 1.98 in
March 55.5°F 32.4°F 2.91 in 50.9°F 31.9°F 2.57 in
April 66.0°F 42.3°F 4.38 in 63.4°F 42.1°F 4.11 in
May 75.7°F 53.3°F 5.49 in 73.7°F 53.4°F 5.28 in
June 84.4°F 62.7°F 4.45 in 83.0°F 63.2°F 4.85 in
July 88.7°F 66.6°F 5.49 in 86.3°F 66.5°F 4.29 in
August 87.3°F 64.5°F 4.36 in 84.9°F 63.8°F 4.19 in
September 79.9°F 55.5°F 4.00 in 78.8°F 55.5°F 3.67 in
October 68.6°F 43.3°F 3.37 in 66.0°F 44.1°F 3.16 in
November 54.8°F 32.1°F 2.55 in 51.3°F 32.8°F 2.45 in
December 43.3°F 23.0°F 2.10 in 39.1°F 23.6°F 1.89 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 →