Climate twins of Tulare, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Tulare'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: Tulare vs its climate twin
Top match: McLaughlin, SD
| Month | Tulare | McLaughlin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 22.8°F | 2.9°F | 0.49 in | 24.1°F | 3.6°F | 0.50 in |
| February | 27.6°F | 7.0°F | 0.56 in | 28.4°F | 6.7°F | 0.49 in |
| March | 41.3°F | 19.9°F | 0.87 in | 41.7°F | 18.6°F | 0.94 in |
| April | 56.3°F | 31.5°F | 2.08 in | 56.2°F | 29.7°F | 1.69 in |
| May | 68.6°F | 44.4°F | 3.34 in | 68.1°F | 41.9°F | 3.17 in |
| June | 78.7°F | 55.5°F | 4.09 in | 78.4°F | 52.7°F | 3.34 in |
| July | 84.1°F | 60.3°F | 3.27 in | 85.4°F | 58.0°F | 3.03 in |
| August | 82.3°F | 57.4°F | 2.68 in | 83.9°F | 55.2°F | 2.47 in |
| September | 74.4°F | 47.7°F | 2.00 in | 73.6°F | 45.3°F | 1.45 in |
| October | 58.9°F | 33.5°F | 2.04 in | 57.4°F | 31.8°F | 1.77 in |
| November | 42.1°F | 20.6°F | 0.68 in | 41.1°F | 18.8°F | 0.65 in |
| December | 27.9°F | 9.3°F | 0.66 in | 28.5°F | 8.6°F | 0.58 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 →