Climate twins of Waurika, OK

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

Top match: Rising Star, TX

Month Waurika Rising Star
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 55.1°F 31.1°F 1.56 in 57.0°F 30.6°F 1.26 in
February 59.7°F 34.8°F 1.77 in 60.7°F 34.2°F 1.89 in
March 69.1°F 42.9°F 2.50 in 68.4°F 42.4°F 2.48 in
April 76.5°F 51.2°F 3.10 in 76.8°F 49.5°F 2.36 in
May 83.4°F 60.7°F 4.32 in 83.9°F 59.6°F 4.95 in
June 91.2°F 69.1°F 3.87 in 90.3°F 67.7°F 3.67 in
July 97.0°F 72.8°F 2.34 in 94.4°F 70.2°F 2.28 in
August 96.3°F 72.1°F 2.96 in 94.9°F 69.3°F 2.80 in
September 88.1°F 64.7°F 3.11 in 87.4°F 62.6°F 2.99 in
October 77.4°F 52.9°F 2.93 in 78.6°F 52.2°F 2.83 in
November 64.8°F 41.8°F 2.09 in 67.2°F 40.7°F 2.15 in
December 55.9°F 32.9°F 1.65 in 58.3°F 33.5°F 1.66 in

Cities that consider Waurika their climate twin

These US cities have Waurika in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Waurika would feel familiar.

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 →