Climate twins of Green, KS

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

Top match: Wathena, KS

Month Green Wathena
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.7°F 17.8°F 0.72 in 37.4°F 17.1°F 0.71 in
February 43.7°F 21.3°F 1.09 in 42.8°F 21.2°F 0.95 in
March 55.3°F 30.8°F 1.94 in 55.1°F 31.5°F 2.06 in
April 65.7°F 41.2°F 2.83 in 65.9°F 41.8°F 3.71 in
May 75.7°F 53.4°F 4.90 in 75.8°F 53.7°F 4.87 in
June 86.0°F 63.7°F 4.50 in 84.7°F 63.8°F 4.75 in
July 91.1°F 68.4°F 3.98 in 88.1°F 67.3°F 4.73 in
August 88.6°F 65.8°F 4.13 in 86.2°F 64.5°F 3.84 in
September 80.8°F 56.9°F 2.89 in 79.7°F 54.4°F 3.18 in
October 68.2°F 43.6°F 2.24 in 67.8°F 42.8°F 2.84 in
November 53.4°F 30.9°F 1.49 in 53.4°F 30.6°F 1.87 in
December 41.6°F 21.4°F 1.14 in 41.1°F 21.1°F 1.25 in

Cities that consider Green their climate twin

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