Climate twins of Hays, KS
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Hays'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: Hays vs its climate twin
Top match: Freedom, OK
| Month | Hays | Freedom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 44.4°F | 20.0°F | 0.56 in | 49.2°F | 18.7°F | 0.81 in |
| February | 48.2°F | 22.4°F | 0.79 in | 52.8°F | 22.7°F | 0.80 in |
| March | 58.1°F | 31.2°F | 1.30 in | 62.5°F | 32.7°F | 1.73 in |
| April | 67.4°F | 39.3°F | 2.22 in | 71.6°F | 41.5°F | 2.05 in |
| May | 76.6°F | 51.0°F | 3.65 in | 79.7°F | 53.7°F | 3.69 in |
| June | 88.7°F | 62.6°F | 3.09 in | 89.2°F | 63.6°F | 4.03 in |
| July | 93.2°F | 67.1°F | 4.14 in | 94.3°F | 67.6°F | 3.51 in |
| August | 91.3°F | 65.1°F | 3.58 in | 92.6°F | 66.0°F | 2.58 in |
| September | 83.5°F | 56.3°F | 2.12 in | 85.3°F | 56.8°F | 1.96 in |
| October | 70.2°F | 42.4°F | 1.75 in | 73.8°F | 41.8°F | 2.51 in |
| November | 56.9°F | 29.9°F | 0.88 in | 61.1°F | 29.8°F | 1.37 in |
| December | 46.5°F | 22.2°F | 0.76 in | 49.6°F | 21.2°F | 1.06 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 →