Climate twins of Waldron, KS

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

Top match: Olpe, KS

Month Waldron Olpe
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.7°F 22.4°F 1.00 in 41.3°F 20.7°F 0.78 in
February 49.2°F 25.6°F 1.23 in 46.5°F 24.2°F 1.31 in
March 59.1°F 34.5°F 2.47 in 57.4°F 33.7°F 2.12 in
April 68.3°F 43.6°F 3.28 in 67.3°F 43.6°F 3.84 in
May 77.5°F 55.2°F 4.79 in 75.9°F 54.2°F 5.01 in
June 88.0°F 65.1°F 4.96 in 85.0°F 63.5°F 4.53 in
July 92.9°F 69.9°F 3.68 in 90.0°F 68.0°F 3.90 in
August 90.9°F 68.0°F 3.23 in 89.2°F 65.8°F 3.86 in
September 83.3°F 59.8°F 2.56 in 80.8°F 57.2°F 3.25 in
October 70.7°F 46.9°F 2.89 in 69.2°F 45.2°F 3.06 in
November 57.4°F 34.3°F 1.63 in 55.9°F 33.3°F 1.85 in
December 46.0°F 25.2°F 1.42 in 44.3°F 24.2°F 1.30 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 →