Climate twins of Atwood, KS

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

Top match: Red Cloud, NE

Month Atwood Red Cloud
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 42.6°F 15.1°F 0.44 in 37.3°F 12.5°F 0.52 in
February 45.5°F 17.2°F 0.60 in 41.8°F 15.6°F 0.65 in
March 56.8°F 25.4°F 1.05 in 53.6°F 25.1°F 1.25 in
April 65.5°F 34.4°F 2.30 in 64.2°F 35.4°F 2.22 in
May 75.1°F 45.6°F 3.23 in 74.1°F 47.4°F 4.19 in
June 87.1°F 56.6°F 3.21 in 85.6°F 58.8°F 3.61 in
July 92.4°F 62.2°F 3.40 in 90.5°F 64.0°F 3.88 in
August 89.7°F 60.3°F 3.20 in 87.9°F 61.4°F 3.38 in
September 81.8°F 50.3°F 1.69 in 80.2°F 51.1°F 1.96 in
October 67.6°F 36.1°F 1.57 in 66.8°F 37.3°F 1.98 in
November 54.2°F 24.3°F 0.81 in 52.2°F 24.5°F 1.11 in
December 43.6°F 16.4°F 0.58 in 40.0°F 15.4°F 0.71 in

Cities that consider Atwood their climate twin

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