Climate twins of Allen, NE

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Allen'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
Butte, NE
similarity distance: 0.931 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Dallas, SD
similarity distance: 0.962 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Burke, SD
similarity distance: 0.962 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Allen vs its climate twin

Top match: Butte, NE

Month Allen Butte
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.6°F 9.3°F 0.64 in 31.4°F 10.8°F 0.54 in
February 34.9°F 12.5°F 0.99 in 35.5°F 13.9°F 0.80 in
March 48.1°F 24.3°F 1.58 in 47.1°F 23.5°F 1.47 in
April 61.2°F 34.2°F 2.79 in 58.0°F 33.6°F 3.12 in
May 72.5°F 46.4°F 4.00 in 69.2°F 45.3°F 4.23 in
June 81.6°F 58.6°F 4.57 in 79.6°F 56.4°F 3.91 in
July 85.3°F 62.1°F 3.09 in 85.9°F 62.1°F 3.48 in
August 83.7°F 60.5°F 3.51 in 83.8°F 59.8°F 3.32 in
September 77.1°F 50.1°F 2.94 in 76.4°F 50.2°F 2.63 in
October 63.8°F 37.3°F 2.47 in 61.8°F 36.9°F 2.37 in
November 47.9°F 24.4°F 1.28 in 46.8°F 24.0°F 0.86 in
December 34.7°F 13.4°F 0.96 in 34.0°F 14.7°F 0.66 in

Cities that consider Allen their climate twin

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