Climate twins of Cedar Creek, NE

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

Top match: Johnston, IA

Month Cedar Creek Johnston
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.3°F 12.7°F 0.92 in 30.0°F 13.1°F 1.01 in
February 37.2°F 16.7°F 1.16 in 35.1°F 17.3°F 1.25 in
March 50.3°F 27.8°F 1.82 in 48.6°F 28.8°F 2.15 in
April 62.6°F 39.0°F 3.45 in 61.5°F 40.1°F 4.00 in
May 72.2°F 51.2°F 4.82 in 71.8°F 51.8°F 4.84 in
June 80.8°F 62.0°F 4.97 in 80.9°F 62.0°F 5.35 in
July 85.5°F 66.7°F 3.69 in 84.7°F 65.6°F 4.27 in
August 83.3°F 63.4°F 3.95 in 82.9°F 63.6°F 3.97 in
September 76.9°F 54.3°F 3.13 in 76.2°F 55.1°F 3.40 in
October 64.7°F 41.2°F 2.47 in 63.1°F 42.5°F 2.51 in
November 49.1°F 28.7°F 1.35 in 47.7°F 29.9°F 1.95 in
December 37.1°F 18.2°F 1.34 in 35.2°F 19.0°F 1.46 in

Cities that consider Cedar Creek their climate twin

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