Climate twins of Basehor, KS

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

Top match: Bucklin, MO

Month Basehor Bucklin
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.3°F 17.7°F 1.18 in 36.1°F 17.7°F 1.50 in
February 43.2°F 21.7°F 1.62 in 41.6°F 21.5°F 1.82 in
March 54.9°F 31.4°F 2.49 in 53.6°F 31.9°F 2.90 in
April 64.5°F 41.6°F 4.03 in 64.9°F 42.2°F 3.95 in
May 73.4°F 52.7°F 5.17 in 74.4°F 53.5°F 5.53 in
June 82.9°F 63.5°F 5.51 in 83.3°F 63.4°F 5.49 in
July 87.2°F 67.4°F 4.51 in 87.3°F 67.4°F 4.92 in
August 86.1°F 65.2°F 4.50 in 86.1°F 64.9°F 4.37 in
September 77.8°F 56.8°F 4.31 in 78.9°F 56.3°F 3.99 in
October 66.6°F 43.7°F 3.42 in 67.3°F 44.5°F 3.43 in
November 53.5°F 31.7°F 2.17 in 52.8°F 32.7°F 2.52 in
December 41.8°F 22.0°F 1.62 in 40.7°F 22.9°F 1.80 in

Cities that consider Basehor their climate twin

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