Climate twins of Hot Springs, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Hot Springs'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: Hot Springs vs its climate twin
Top match: Chappell, NE
| Month | Hot Springs | Chappell | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 40.4°F | 14.1°F | 0.41 in | 39.5°F | 13.4°F | 0.33 in |
| February | 43.3°F | 15.4°F | 0.57 in | 41.4°F | 15.7°F | 0.54 in |
| March | 54.1°F | 23.6°F | 1.05 in | 51.7°F | 24.3°F | 1.04 in |
| April | 61.6°F | 31.2°F | 2.12 in | 60.2°F | 32.9°F | 2.13 in |
| May | 70.2°F | 41.4°F | 3.28 in | 70.0°F | 43.5°F | 2.94 in |
| June | 80.6°F | 50.8°F | 3.05 in | 81.2°F | 53.4°F | 3.07 in |
| July | 88.5°F | 57.4°F | 2.41 in | 87.4°F | 60.2°F | 2.66 in |
| August | 87.4°F | 55.2°F | 2.00 in | 85.3°F | 57.6°F | 2.41 in |
| September | 79.7°F | 45.4°F | 1.40 in | 76.9°F | 47.7°F | 1.58 in |
| October | 64.7°F | 33.3°F | 1.40 in | 63.1°F | 34.1°F | 1.39 in |
| November | 50.5°F | 22.7°F | 0.43 in | 50.2°F | 22.4°F | 0.50 in |
| December | 40.5°F | 14.8°F | 0.49 in | 39.8°F | 14.0°F | 0.39 in |
Cities that consider Hot Springs their climate twin
These US cities have Hot Springs in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Hot Springs would feel familiar.
- Chappell, NE (ranks Hot Springs #1)
- Oshkosh, NE (ranks Hot Springs #1)
- Holyoke, CO (ranks Hot Springs #1)
- Paoli, CO (ranks Hot Springs #1)
- Peetz, CO (ranks Hot Springs #1)
- Sidney, NE (ranks Hot Springs #1)
- Sedgwick, CO (ranks Hot Springs #1)
- Dalton, NE (ranks Hot Springs #1)
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 →