Climate twins of Bassett, NE

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

Top match: Howard, SD

Month	Bassett			Howard
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	31.8°F	10.5°F	0.58 in	29.1°F	4.6°F	0.63 in
February	35.5°F	13.5°F	0.82 in	34.1°F	9.0°F	0.67 in
March	46.5°F	22.6°F	1.46 in	46.8°F	20.8°F	1.37 in
April	56.5°F	33.3°F	3.17 in	61.0°F	31.8°F	2.68 in
May	67.5°F	45.4°F	4.06 in	72.5°F	44.8°F	3.88 in
June	78.2°F	55.9°F	3.99 in	82.3°F	55.8°F	3.70 in
July	85.1°F	61.2°F	3.44 in	87.3°F	60.2°F	3.51 in
August	83.1°F	58.6°F	2.96 in	84.9°F	57.6°F	2.89 in
September	74.8°F	48.9°F	2.75 in	77.4°F	48.4°F	2.96 in
October	60.4°F	34.7°F	2.23 in	62.6°F	35.1°F	2.35 in
November	45.9°F	22.5°F	0.77 in	46.9°F	21.3°F	1.02 in
December	34.3°F	13.7°F	0.86 in	33.1°F	10.2°F	0.69 in

Cities that consider Bassett their climate twin

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

Canova, SD (ranks Bassett #2)
Howard, SD (ranks Bassett #2)

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 →