Climate twins of Bartley, NE

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

Top match: Burr Oak, KS

Month Bartley Burr Oak
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.4°F 12.6°F 0.41 in 37.9°F 14.2°F 0.67 in
February 44.8°F 15.4°F 0.64 in 42.2°F 17.3°F 0.77 in
March 55.9°F 24.9°F 1.17 in 53.6°F 26.5°F 1.47 in
April 64.7°F 34.7°F 2.23 in 63.8°F 36.2°F 2.35 in
May 73.9°F 46.3°F 3.26 in 72.4°F 48.4°F 4.06 in
June 84.5°F 58.0°F 3.78 in 83.7°F 59.9°F 3.77 in
July 89.4°F 63.3°F 3.88 in 88.2°F 64.5°F 4.28 in
August 87.4°F 60.6°F 3.02 in 85.8°F 61.6°F 3.33 in
September 80.6°F 50.1°F 1.67 in 78.3°F 52.4°F 2.39 in
October 68.0°F 35.4°F 1.82 in 65.7°F 38.9°F 2.10 in
November 54.5°F 22.9°F 0.89 in 51.9°F 25.9°F 1.33 in
December 42.5°F 13.9°F 0.67 in 40.0°F 17.4°F 0.96 in

Cities that consider Bartley their climate twin

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