Climate twins of Galva, KS

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Galva'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
Iatan, MO
similarity distance: 1.282 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
De Kalb, MO
similarity distance: 1.282 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Atchison, KS
similarity distance: 1.282 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Galva vs its climate twin

Top match: Iatan, MO

Month Galva Iatan
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 42.4°F 19.0°F 0.90 in 36.2°F 18.4°F 0.93 in
February 47.2°F 22.0°F 1.22 in 41.6°F 22.8°F 1.20 in
March 57.6°F 31.3°F 2.35 in 54.0°F 32.4°F 1.92 in
April 67.1°F 40.6°F 2.98 in 65.0°F 42.9°F 3.42 in
May 77.0°F 52.3°F 5.42 in 74.4°F 55.4°F 5.32 in
June 87.9°F 63.4°F 4.75 in 83.7°F 65.2°F 4.87 in
July 92.8°F 68.3°F 4.19 in 87.6°F 69.3°F 5.17 in
August 90.7°F 66.3°F 3.51 in 86.4°F 66.5°F 3.75 in
September 83.3°F 57.6°F 2.97 in 78.9°F 58.1°F 3.48 in
October 70.6°F 44.4°F 2.44 in 66.6°F 46.2°F 3.10 in
November 56.3°F 31.4°F 1.56 in 51.9°F 33.3°F 1.81 in
December 44.3°F 22.2°F 1.29 in 40.1°F 23.4°F 1.41 in

Cities that consider Galva their climate twin

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