Climate twins of Glen Elder, KS

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

Top match: Hoxie, KS

Month Glen Elder Hoxie
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 40.3°F 13.6°F 0.67 in 41.8°F 18.8°F 0.45 in
February 44.8°F 16.8°F 0.72 in 44.8°F 21.1°F 0.59 in
March 55.9°F 26.6°F 1.32 in 55.6°F 29.4°F 1.18 in
April 66.5°F 36.5°F 2.22 in 64.5°F 38.8°F 2.20 in
May 74.9°F 47.8°F 3.87 in 73.9°F 50.1°F 3.21 in
June 86.6°F 60.2°F 3.70 in 85.3°F 61.1°F 2.73 in
July 92.7°F 64.5°F 4.32 in 90.0°F 66.1°F 3.70 in
August 89.4°F 62.3°F 3.12 in 87.6°F 64.3°F 3.16 in
September 82.1°F 52.5°F 2.28 in 80.0°F 55.1°F 1.54 in
October 69.9°F 39.9°F 1.92 in 67.2°F 41.3°F 1.76 in
November 54.9°F 26.3°F 1.14 in 53.7°F 29.5°F 0.81 in
December 43.8°F 17.5°F 0.99 in 42.9°F 21.2°F 0.68 in

Cities that consider Glen Elder their climate twin

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