Climate twins of Kennebec, SD

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

Top match: Maxwell, NE

Month	Kennebec			Maxwell
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	31.6°F	9.2°F	0.45 in	40.7°F	11.9°F	0.39 in
February	36.4°F	12.7°F	0.59 in	43.9°F	14.8°F	0.57 in
March	49.0°F	22.7°F	0.96 in	55.2°F	23.9°F	1.00 in
April	61.6°F	32.9°F	2.34 in	63.2°F	33.2°F	2.29 in
May	72.4°F	44.9°F	3.29 in	72.8°F	44.2°F	3.35 in
June	82.4°F	55.6°F	3.48 in	84.0°F	55.4°F	3.54 in
July	89.7°F	61.4°F	2.84 in	89.7°F	61.4°F	3.18 in
August	87.8°F	59.2°F	2.31 in	87.2°F	58.8°F	2.56 in
September	80.3°F	49.5°F	1.72 in	80.0°F	48.3°F	1.61 in
October	63.8°F	35.6°F	1.63 in	66.0°F	34.3°F	1.65 in
November	47.1°F	22.3°F	0.71 in	52.6°F	21.4°F	0.49 in
December	34.3°F	12.5°F	0.47 in	42.0°F	13.1°F	0.45 in

Cities that consider Kennebec their climate twin

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

Elsie, NE (ranks Kennebec #3)

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 →