Climate twins of Elkhart, KS

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

Top match: Friona, TX

Month	Elkhart			Friona
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	47.7°F	21.3°F	0.43 in	50.9°F	22.4°F	0.70 in
February	51.5°F	23.2°F	0.31 in	56.0°F	25.1°F	0.48 in
March	60.4°F	31.0°F	1.00 in	64.3°F	31.7°F	1.15 in
April	68.8°F	39.2°F	1.86 in	72.0°F	38.4°F	1.00 in
May	79.0°F	49.5°F	2.22 in	80.3°F	49.0°F	2.14 in
June	89.4°F	60.0°F	2.55 in	89.4°F	59.2°F	2.49 in
July	93.4°F	64.9°F	2.94 in	91.2°F	63.4°F	2.64 in
August	90.8°F	63.2°F	2.95 in	89.9°F	62.1°F	3.13 in
September	83.5°F	54.8°F	1.24 in	83.5°F	54.6°F	2.03 in
October	71.3°F	41.9°F	1.67 in	73.0°F	42.3°F	1.98 in
November	58.3°F	31.2°F	0.49 in	60.3°F	30.5°F	0.75 in
December	48.0°F	22.6°F	0.74 in	51.0°F	23.6°F	0.80 in

Cities that consider Elkhart their climate twin

These US cities have Elkhart in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Elkhart would feel familiar.

Winona, KS (ranks Elkhart #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 →