Climate twins of Ericson, NE

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

Top match: Mullen, NE

Month Ericson Mullen
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.3°F 11.0°F 0.52 in 36.9°F 14.8°F 0.36 in
February 37.7°F 14.2°F 0.65 in 39.3°F 16.9°F 0.52 in
March 49.3°F 23.3°F 1.48 in 50.2°F 24.9°F 1.33 in
April 59.2°F 33.4°F 2.73 in 58.9°F 33.7°F 2.57 in
May 69.4°F 44.8°F 3.97 in 68.6°F 44.7°F 3.81 in
June 79.9°F 55.7°F 4.17 in 79.9°F 54.9°F 3.95 in
July 85.7°F 60.9°F 3.59 in 86.0°F 60.6°F 3.95 in
August 83.6°F 58.8°F 3.22 in 84.1°F 58.4°F 2.27 in
September 76.4°F 49.1°F 2.37 in 76.4°F 49.0°F 2.56 in
October 63.1°F 35.2°F 2.15 in 61.5°F 36.3°F 1.85 in
November 48.7°F 23.0°F 1.01 in 48.9°F 24.7°F 0.65 in
December 37.0°F 14.4°F 0.69 in 37.8°F 16.3°F 0.43 in

Cities that consider Ericson their climate twin

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