Climate twins of Kensington, KS
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Kensington'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: Kensington vs its climate twin
Top match: Atwood, KS
| Month | Kensington | Atwood | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 39.8°F | 12.8°F | 0.53 in | 42.6°F | 15.1°F | 0.44 in |
| February | 44.5°F | 15.6°F | 0.76 in | 45.5°F | 17.2°F | 0.60 in |
| March | 56.4°F | 24.8°F | 1.40 in | 56.8°F | 25.4°F | 1.05 in |
| April | 66.1°F | 35.4°F | 2.24 in | 65.5°F | 34.4°F | 2.30 in |
| May | 75.4°F | 47.6°F | 4.19 in | 75.1°F | 45.6°F | 3.23 in |
| June | 87.4°F | 59.5°F | 3.29 in | 87.1°F | 56.6°F | 3.21 in |
| July | 92.2°F | 64.5°F | 3.96 in | 92.4°F | 62.2°F | 3.40 in |
| August | 89.5°F | 61.4°F | 3.35 in | 89.7°F | 60.3°F | 3.20 in |
| September | 81.9°F | 51.7°F | 2.17 in | 81.8°F | 50.3°F | 1.69 in |
| October | 68.8°F | 37.0°F | 1.88 in | 67.6°F | 36.1°F | 1.57 in |
| November | 54.3°F | 24.6°F | 1.06 in | 54.2°F | 24.3°F | 0.81 in |
| December | 42.3°F | 15.9°F | 0.85 in | 43.6°F | 16.4°F | 0.58 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 →