Climate twins of Farnam, NE

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

Top match: Winner, SD

Month Farnam Winner
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.1°F 14.3°F 0.51 in 35.2°F 12.5°F 0.54 in
February 40.0°F 17.3°F 0.84 in 39.3°F 14.9°F 0.64 in
March 51.6°F 26.1°F 1.27 in 49.9°F 24.1°F 1.12 in
April 60.9°F 35.8°F 2.50 in 60.7°F 34.7°F 2.81 in
May 70.8°F 47.4°F 3.58 in 71.5°F 46.8°F 3.63 in
June 81.8°F 58.1°F 3.50 in 81.8°F 57.1°F 3.92 in
July 87.3°F 63.0°F 3.31 in 89.6°F 63.1°F 2.62 in
August 85.1°F 60.9°F 2.79 in 87.3°F 61.0°F 2.42 in
September 77.9°F 51.4°F 1.63 in 79.5°F 52.0°F 2.15 in
October 64.3°F 37.8°F 1.81 in 64.7°F 38.4°F 1.82 in
November 50.2°F 25.9°F 0.90 in 49.5°F 25.7°F 0.81 in
December 38.7°F 16.9°F 0.71 in 37.0°F 16.0°F 0.69 in

Cities that consider Farnam their climate twin

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