Climate twins of Greensburg, KS

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

Top match: Smith Center, KS

Month Greensburg Smith Center
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.2°F 19.3°F 0.71 in 38.9°F 15.7°F 0.59 in
February 47.4°F 22.0°F 0.81 in 43.7°F 18.8°F 0.70 in
March 57.5°F 30.4°F 1.92 in 55.4°F 27.9°F 1.45 in
April 66.9°F 39.3°F 2.41 in 65.7°F 37.9°F 2.12 in
May 76.3°F 50.9°F 3.39 in 75.7°F 50.2°F 4.00 in
June 86.1°F 61.1°F 3.87 in 87.1°F 61.0°F 3.64 in
July 91.8°F 66.3°F 3.16 in 92.1°F 66.1°F 4.39 in
August 89.7°F 64.4°F 3.46 in 89.1°F 63.4°F 3.42 in
September 82.0°F 55.7°F 2.04 in 81.7°F 54.4°F 1.98 in
October 69.6°F 42.4°F 2.28 in 68.1°F 40.7°F 1.86 in
November 55.9°F 30.0°F 0.96 in 53.4°F 27.7°F 1.16 in
December 44.8°F 21.6°F 0.96 in 40.9°F 18.6°F 0.79 in

Cities that consider Greensburg their climate twin

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