Climate twins of Alden, KS

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Alden'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.

Rank 1 closest
Mutual, OK
similarity distance: 1.336 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Arnett, OK
similarity distance: 1.573 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Wamego, KS
similarity distance: 1.609 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Alden vs its climate twin

Top match: Mutual, OK

Month Alden Mutual
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.9°F 19.5°F 0.83 in 47.9°F 22.0°F 0.82 in
February 46.1°F 22.4°F 0.95 in 51.7°F 24.6°F 0.89 in
March 56.8°F 31.3°F 1.97 in 61.0°F 33.2°F 1.69 in
April 66.6°F 40.9°F 2.40 in 70.1°F 41.5°F 2.55 in
May 76.5°F 53.3°F 4.71 in 79.1°F 52.8°F 4.07 in
June 87.6°F 63.9°F 4.07 in 89.0°F 63.2°F 3.77 in
July 92.5°F 68.7°F 3.73 in 94.3°F 67.5°F 2.86 in
August 90.2°F 66.5°F 3.77 in 93.1°F 65.9°F 2.79 in
September 82.2°F 57.7°F 2.00 in 84.6°F 57.8°F 2.39 in
October 69.6°F 43.9°F 2.50 in 72.4°F 45.0°F 2.54 in
November 55.6°F 31.2°F 1.05 in 59.2°F 32.6°F 1.24 in
December 43.7°F 22.2°F 1.02 in 48.7°F 24.2°F 1.12 in

Cities that consider Alden their climate twin

These US cities have Alden in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Alden 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 →