Climate twins of Hugoton, KS

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

Top match: Hereford, TX

Month	Hugoton			Hereford
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	47.4°F	20.1°F	0.46 in	51.1°F	22.5°F	0.64 in
February	51.5°F	22.6°F	0.31 in	55.5°F	25.3°F	0.45 in
March	60.6°F	30.7°F	1.14 in	64.3°F	32.4°F	1.22 in
April	69.0°F	39.4°F	1.58 in	72.4°F	39.7°F	1.09 in
May	78.6°F	50.2°F	2.18 in	81.1°F	50.3°F	2.09 in
June	88.3°F	59.9°F	3.40 in	90.2°F	60.6°F	3.34 in
July	92.3°F	64.6°F	2.67 in	92.4°F	64.8°F	2.34 in
August	89.7°F	62.9°F	3.17 in	90.7°F	63.5°F	3.04 in
September	82.9°F	54.8°F	1.77 in	83.5°F	55.8°F	1.86 in
October	70.5°F	41.6°F	1.61 in	72.6°F	43.3°F	1.85 in
November	57.7°F	29.3°F	0.51 in	60.3°F	31.3°F	0.69 in
December	47.1°F	21.0°F	0.93 in	51.1°F	23.8°F	0.72 in

Cities that consider Hugoton their climate twin

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

Hereford, TX (ranks Hugoton #3)
Dimmitt, TX (ranks Hugoton #2)
Nazareth, TX (ranks Hugoton #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 →