Climate twins of Culbertson, NE

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

Top match: Red Cloud, NE

Month Culbertson Red Cloud
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.3°F 14.0°F 0.36 in 37.3°F 12.5°F 0.52 in
February 44.8°F 16.5°F 0.57 in 41.8°F 15.6°F 0.65 in
March 56.3°F 25.0°F 1.20 in 53.6°F 25.1°F 1.25 in
April 65.0°F 34.1°F 2.35 in 64.2°F 35.4°F 2.22 in
May 74.5°F 45.7°F 3.04 in 74.1°F 47.4°F 4.19 in
June 86.1°F 56.8°F 3.38 in 85.6°F 58.8°F 3.61 in
July 91.6°F 62.5°F 3.52 in 90.5°F 64.0°F 3.88 in
August 89.4°F 60.4°F 3.43 in 87.9°F 61.4°F 3.38 in
September 81.8°F 50.2°F 1.62 in 80.2°F 51.1°F 1.96 in
October 67.8°F 36.0°F 1.82 in 66.8°F 37.3°F 1.98 in
November 53.6°F 23.5°F 0.73 in 52.2°F 24.5°F 1.11 in
December 42.4°F 15.3°F 0.50 in 40.0°F 15.4°F 0.71 in

Cities that consider Culbertson their climate twin

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