Climate twins of Garden City, KS

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

Top match: Benkelman, NE

Month	Garden City			Benkelman
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	45.6°F	17.0°F	0.47 in	42.5°F	15.9°F	0.51 in
February	49.2°F	19.5°F	0.59 in	45.8°F	18.6°F	0.60 in
March	59.0°F	28.5°F	1.13 in	56.5°F	27.2°F	0.97 in
April	67.8°F	37.1°F	1.65 in	64.6°F	36.1°F	1.96 in
May	77.7°F	48.9°F	2.79 in	74.0°F	47.4°F	3.11 in
June	88.6°F	60.0°F	3.07 in	85.8°F	58.4°F	2.90 in
July	93.0°F	64.9°F	3.16 in	91.4°F	64.0°F	3.13 in
August	90.6°F	63.0°F	2.80 in	89.0°F	61.5°F	2.39 in
September	83.8°F	53.6°F	1.33 in	81.4°F	51.4°F	1.44 in
October	70.9°F	39.7°F	1.34 in	67.7°F	37.0°F	1.50 in
November	57.2°F	27.1°F	0.49 in	54.0°F	25.4°F	0.60 in
December	46.6°F	18.3°F	0.73 in	43.5°F	16.9°F	0.55 in

Cities that consider Garden City their climate twin

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

Benkelman, NE (ranks Garden City #3)

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 →