Climate twins of Great Bend, KS
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Great Bend'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: Great Bend vs its climate twin
Top match: Geneva, NE
| Month | Great Bend | Geneva | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 42.5°F | 18.2°F | 0.71 in | 36.5°F | 16.9°F | 0.57 in |
| February | 47.0°F | 21.0°F | 0.89 in | 41.2°F | 20.5°F | 0.58 in |
| March | 57.7°F | 30.0°F | 1.56 in | 54.0°F | 29.8°F | 1.35 in |
| April | 67.6°F | 39.3°F | 2.15 in | 65.1°F | 40.0°F | 2.34 in |
| May | 76.4°F | 50.7°F | 4.83 in | 74.0°F | 51.6°F | 4.93 in |
| June | 86.7°F | 60.9°F | 3.66 in | 83.5°F | 61.9°F | 4.06 in |
| July | 91.3°F | 65.2°F | 3.86 in | 86.5°F | 65.9°F | 3.60 in |
| August | 89.0°F | 63.4°F | 3.69 in | 84.5°F | 63.9°F | 3.65 in |
| September | 81.7°F | 54.9°F | 1.98 in | 79.0°F | 55.4°F | 2.86 in |
| October | 69.4°F | 41.9°F | 1.96 in | 66.6°F | 42.7°F | 2.15 in |
| November | 55.1°F | 29.3°F | 1.00 in | 51.4°F | 30.0°F | 1.21 in |
| December | 43.5°F | 20.3°F | 1.01 in | 39.2°F | 20.6°F | 0.88 in |
Cities that consider Great Bend their climate twin
These US cities have Great Bend in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Great Bend would feel familiar.
- Geneva, NE (ranks Great Bend #1)
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 →