Climate twins of Greenwood, NE

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

Top match: Cumming, IA

Month Greenwood Cumming
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.7°F 13.3°F 0.85 in 30.9°F 13.8°F 1.08 in
February 37.7°F 17.0°F 0.98 in 35.7°F 18.0°F 1.34 in
March 50.6°F 27.6°F 1.67 in 49.2°F 29.6°F 2.17 in
April 62.6°F 38.2°F 3.18 in 62.0°F 40.6°F 4.02 in
May 73.3°F 50.1°F 5.19 in 72.4°F 52.3°F 5.24 in
June 83.2°F 61.5°F 4.48 in 81.9°F 62.4°F 5.26 in
July 87.2°F 65.6°F 3.68 in 85.6°F 66.4°F 3.82 in
August 85.2°F 63.0°F 3.96 in 83.6°F 64.2°F 4.17 in
September 78.5°F 53.4°F 3.19 in 76.9°F 55.4°F 3.18 in
October 65.4°F 40.9°F 2.40 in 63.4°F 42.9°F 2.78 in
November 49.8°F 28.1°F 1.42 in 48.3°F 30.2°F 1.91 in
December 37.1°F 18.4°F 1.29 in 35.9°F 19.5°F 1.58 in

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 →