Climate twins of Cherryvale, KS

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

Top match: Warsaw, MO

Month Cherryvale Warsaw
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.1°F 23.0°F 1.51 in 42.5°F 21.9°F 1.75 in
February 48.8°F 25.9°F 1.44 in 46.8°F 25.1°F 2.14 in
March 58.3°F 35.8°F 2.84 in 57.0°F 33.9°F 3.04 in
April 67.7°F 46.2°F 4.15 in 67.7°F 43.7°F 4.60 in
May 75.5°F 56.4°F 6.72 in 76.1°F 55.1°F 5.52 in
June 84.0°F 65.4°F 4.84 in 84.9°F 64.9°F 5.24 in
July 89.3°F 69.7°F 3.96 in 89.7°F 69.4°F 4.70 in
August 89.2°F 68.4°F 4.13 in 88.8°F 67.3°F 3.96 in
September 81.4°F 60.1°F 3.52 in 81.6°F 58.5°F 4.11 in
October 70.4°F 47.5°F 3.93 in 69.9°F 46.3°F 3.45 in
November 57.0°F 35.6°F 2.42 in 57.3°F 35.6°F 3.06 in
December 46.5°F 26.9°F 1.61 in 46.4°F 26.7°F 1.97 in

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 →