Climate twins of Ashland, KS

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

Top match: Claude, TX

Month	Ashland			Claude
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	47.7°F	18.5°F	0.66 in	50.1°F	23.8°F	0.53 in
February	51.4°F	22.0°F	0.73 in	54.1°F	26.6°F	0.50 in
March	61.6°F	31.3°F	1.39 in	63.9°F	33.7°F	1.24 in
April	70.6°F	40.4°F	1.83 in	71.7°F	41.5°F	1.60 in
May	80.0°F	52.9°F	3.19 in	80.3°F	51.8°F	2.74 in
June	89.7°F	63.6°F	3.96 in	89.2°F	62.1°F	3.22 in
July	95.2°F	67.7°F	2.94 in	93.4°F	66.2°F	2.57 in
August	93.2°F	65.8°F	2.98 in	91.3°F	65.0°F	3.07 in
September	85.5°F	56.2°F	1.60 in	83.8°F	57.4°F	1.91 in
October	73.2°F	41.8°F	1.79 in	72.7°F	45.3°F	1.97 in
November	59.6°F	29.3°F	0.93 in	60.1°F	33.4°F	0.80 in
December	48.5°F	20.1°F	1.00 in	50.2°F	25.2°F	0.91 in

Cities that consider Ashland their climate twin

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

Burrton, KS (ranks Ashland #3)

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 →