Climate twins of Bayard, NE
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Bayard'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: Bayard vs its climate twin
Top match: Maxwell, NE
| Month | Bayard | Maxwell | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 41.1°F | 15.8°F | 0.36 in | 40.7°F | 11.9°F | 0.39 in |
| February | 45.0°F | 18.3°F | 0.50 in | 43.9°F | 14.8°F | 0.57 in |
| March | 56.0°F | 26.0°F | 0.91 in | 55.2°F | 23.9°F | 1.00 in |
| April | 64.2°F | 33.3°F | 2.17 in | 63.2°F | 33.2°F | 2.29 in |
| May | 73.3°F | 43.7°F | 3.31 in | 72.8°F | 44.2°F | 3.35 in |
| June | 85.2°F | 53.6°F | 2.89 in | 84.0°F | 55.4°F | 3.54 in |
| July | 91.5°F | 60.1°F | 2.43 in | 89.7°F | 61.4°F | 3.18 in |
| August | 89.1°F | 57.6°F | 2.06 in | 87.2°F | 58.8°F | 2.56 in |
| September | 80.6°F | 48.0°F | 1.70 in | 80.0°F | 48.3°F | 1.61 in |
| October | 65.6°F | 34.4°F | 1.28 in | 66.0°F | 34.3°F | 1.65 in |
| November | 51.9°F | 23.7°F | 0.57 in | 52.6°F | 21.4°F | 0.49 in |
| December | 41.1°F | 15.7°F | 0.45 in | 42.0°F | 13.1°F | 0.45 in |
Cities that consider Bayard their climate twin
These US cities have Bayard in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Bayard would feel familiar.
- Maxwell, NE (ranks Bayard #3)
- Sutherland, NE (ranks Bayard #3)
- Hershey, NE (ranks Bayard #3)
- Kanorado, KS (ranks Bayard #2)
- Bethune, CO (ranks Bayard #3)
- Burlington, CO (ranks Bayard #2)
- Goodland, KS (ranks Bayard #2)
- Brewster, KS (ranks Bayard #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 →