Climate twins of Franklin, NE

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

Top match: Page, NE

Month	Franklin			Page
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	38.3°F	13.9°F	0.56 in	35.4°F	10.3°F	0.56 in
February	42.5°F	16.8°F	0.79 in	39.7°F	13.5°F	0.72 in
March	54.0°F	26.3°F	1.44 in	52.1°F	23.8°F	1.39 in
April	63.7°F	36.1°F	2.54 in	63.0°F	34.1°F	3.02 in
May	73.3°F	47.9°F	4.39 in	73.4°F	46.3°F	4.08 in
June	84.2°F	58.9°F	3.88 in	83.2°F	56.4°F	3.91 in
July	89.2°F	64.1°F	3.94 in	87.9°F	61.5°F	3.22 in
August	86.8°F	61.6°F	3.16 in	85.7°F	59.2°F	3.23 in
September	79.8°F	51.7°F	1.81 in	79.1°F	49.6°F	2.23 in
October	66.7°F	38.0°F	2.11 in	65.6°F	36.4°F	2.07 in
November	52.6°F	25.3°F	1.05 in	49.4°F	23.4°F	0.90 in
December	40.6°F	16.5°F	0.87 in	37.2°F	13.6°F	0.74 in

Cities that consider Franklin their climate twin

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

Beatrice, NE (ranks Franklin #2)
De Witt, NE (ranks Franklin #1)
Pickrell, NE (ranks Franklin #2)

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 →