Climate twins of Horace, KS

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

Top match: Imperial, NE

Month Horace Imperial
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.2°F 16.1°F 0.43 in 41.8°F 16.1°F 0.25 in
February 47.2°F 18.7°F 0.54 in 44.5°F 18.6°F 0.36 in
March 56.9°F 26.5°F 0.99 in 55.5°F 26.2°F 0.79 in
April 64.9°F 34.6°F 1.66 in 63.0°F 34.6°F 1.79 in
May 74.6°F 46.0°F 2.23 in 73.0°F 45.9°F 2.92 in
June 86.2°F 56.6°F 2.77 in 85.1°F 56.7°F 3.05 in
July 91.4°F 61.7°F 3.14 in 90.9°F 62.2°F 2.84 in
August 88.2°F 59.8°F 2.87 in 88.4°F 60.0°F 2.16 in
September 81.4°F 50.8°F 1.13 in 80.4°F 50.1°F 1.29 in
October 68.3°F 36.7°F 1.59 in 66.0°F 36.6°F 1.37 in
November 54.7°F 25.6°F 0.53 in 52.6°F 24.6°F 0.42 in
December 44.8°F 17.2°F 0.56 in 42.5°F 16.8°F 0.23 in

Cities that consider Horace their climate twin

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