Climate twins of Humboldt, NE

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

Top match: North Liberty, IA

Month Humboldt North Liberty
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.4°F 14.4°F 0.78 in 30.9°F 14.6°F 1.04 in
February 40.7°F 18.1°F 1.14 in 35.5°F 18.5°F 1.21 in
March 53.0°F 28.1°F 2.18 in 49.5°F 29.5°F 2.21 in
April 63.8°F 38.3°F 3.24 in 62.6°F 40.1°F 3.76 in
May 74.0°F 50.0°F 5.01 in 73.4°F 51.7°F 4.48 in
June 83.7°F 60.7°F 4.68 in 82.6°F 62.1°F 5.29 in
July 88.4°F 65.0°F 4.56 in 85.8°F 65.8°F 3.91 in
August 86.6°F 62.5°F 3.80 in 83.8°F 63.3°F 3.94 in
September 79.5°F 53.1°F 3.13 in 77.5°F 54.2°F 3.24 in
October 67.1°F 40.5°F 2.60 in 64.1°F 42.1°F 2.98 in
November 51.9°F 28.6°F 1.69 in 49.2°F 30.4°F 2.17 in
December 39.4°F 18.8°F 1.28 in 36.3°F 20.1°F 1.45 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 →