Climate twins of Elsie, NE

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Elsie'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.

Rank 1 closest
Valentine, NE
similarity distance: 0.955 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
White River, SD
similarity distance: 0.977 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Kennebec, SD
similarity distance: 1.081 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Elsie vs its climate twin

Top match: Valentine, NE

Month Elsie Valentine
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 39.6°F 13.5°F 0.36 in 35.8°F 12.9°F 0.27 in
February 42.5°F 15.9°F 0.70 in 38.8°F 15.4°F 0.52 in
March 53.7°F 24.5°F 1.02 in 50.1°F 25.0°F 0.94 in
April 61.6°F 33.1°F 2.04 in 59.6°F 34.9°F 2.37 in
May 71.7°F 45.3°F 3.54 in 70.7°F 45.5°F 3.62 in
June 83.6°F 56.1°F 3.28 in 81.8°F 56.5°F 4.03 in
July 89.3°F 61.4°F 3.64 in 89.1°F 62.3°F 2.82 in
August 87.3°F 58.8°F 2.53 in 86.7°F 60.2°F 2.17 in
September 79.5°F 48.6°F 1.64 in 78.1°F 50.4°F 1.70 in
October 65.3°F 34.7°F 1.77 in 62.4°F 36.3°F 1.38 in
November 51.2°F 22.9°F 0.53 in 48.7°F 23.6°F 0.52 in
December 40.6°F 14.9°F 0.40 in 36.7°F 14.8°F 0.45 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 →