Climate twins of Bennington, KS

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

Top match: Crescent, IA

Month Bennington Crescent
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 40.4°F 18.2°F 0.86 in 33.6°F 15.2°F 0.75 in
February 45.8°F 21.3°F 1.16 in 38.6°F 19.3°F 0.95 in
March 57.0°F 30.6°F 1.92 in 52.1°F 30.0°F 1.79 in
April 67.1°F 40.7°F 2.42 in 64.1°F 41.1°F 3.17 in
May 76.7°F 52.7°F 5.17 in 74.6°F 52.7°F 4.66 in
June 87.7°F 63.2°F 3.98 in 84.4°F 63.4°F 4.44 in
July 93.3°F 68.2°F 4.40 in 88.1°F 68.0°F 3.55 in
August 90.6°F 65.6°F 4.20 in 85.8°F 65.6°F 4.60 in
September 82.6°F 56.8°F 2.69 in 79.1°F 56.1°F 2.96 in
October 69.6°F 43.4°F 2.39 in 65.5°F 43.2°F 2.32 in
November 55.0°F 30.6°F 1.24 in 50.3°F 30.2°F 1.45 in
December 42.6°F 21.3°F 1.29 in 37.7°F 19.8°F 1.22 in

Cities that consider Bennington their climate twin

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