Climate twins of Hemingford, NE

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

Top match: Belle Fourche, SD

Month	Hemingford			Belle Fourche
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	37.6°F	16.1°F	0.31 in	36.5°F	12.9°F	0.44 in
February	39.2°F	18.0°F	0.54 in	39.1°F	15.1°F	0.51 in
March	49.3°F	25.6°F	0.96 in	49.7°F	23.9°F	1.16 in
April	56.9°F	33.0°F	2.14 in	59.0°F	32.8°F	2.11 in
May	66.6°F	43.0°F	3.00 in	68.5°F	43.5°F	3.04 in
June	78.6°F	53.0°F	2.94 in	79.3°F	53.7°F	2.96 in
July	86.5°F	59.4°F	2.61 in	87.3°F	59.7°F	1.96 in
August	84.7°F	57.5°F	1.83 in	86.6°F	56.8°F	1.50 in
September	75.5°F	48.7°F	1.48 in	77.8°F	46.5°F	1.34 in
October	60.9°F	35.5°F	1.22 in	62.2°F	35.0°F	1.72 in
November	48.0°F	25.3°F	0.51 in	47.5°F	23.6°F	0.66 in
December	38.0°F	16.5°F	0.47 in	37.1°F	14.9°F	0.59 in

Cities that consider Hemingford their climate twin

These US cities have Hemingford in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Hemingford would feel familiar.

Belle Fourche, SD (ranks Hemingford #3)
Akron, CO (ranks Hemingford #2)

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 →