Climate twins of Geneva, NE

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

Top match: Great Bend, KS

Month Geneva Great Bend
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 36.5°F 16.9°F 0.57 in 42.5°F 18.2°F 0.71 in
February 41.2°F 20.5°F 0.58 in 47.0°F 21.0°F 0.89 in
March 54.0°F 29.8°F 1.35 in 57.7°F 30.0°F 1.56 in
April 65.1°F 40.0°F 2.34 in 67.6°F 39.3°F 2.15 in
May 74.0°F 51.6°F 4.93 in 76.4°F 50.7°F 4.83 in
June 83.5°F 61.9°F 4.06 in 86.7°F 60.9°F 3.66 in
July 86.5°F 65.9°F 3.60 in 91.3°F 65.2°F 3.86 in
August 84.5°F 63.9°F 3.65 in 89.0°F 63.4°F 3.69 in
September 79.0°F 55.4°F 2.86 in 81.7°F 54.9°F 1.98 in
October 66.6°F 42.7°F 2.15 in 69.4°F 41.9°F 1.96 in
November 51.4°F 30.0°F 1.21 in 55.1°F 29.3°F 1.00 in
December 39.2°F 20.6°F 0.88 in 43.5°F 20.3°F 1.01 in

Cities that consider Geneva their climate twin

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