Climate twins of Kismet, KS

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

Top match: Claude, TX

Month Kismet Claude
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 47.6°F 19.7°F 0.47 in 50.1°F 23.8°F 0.53 in
February 51.0°F 22.2°F 0.40 in 54.1°F 26.6°F 0.50 in
March 60.7°F 30.3°F 1.20 in 63.9°F 33.7°F 1.24 in
April 69.6°F 38.7°F 1.80 in 71.7°F 41.5°F 1.60 in
May 78.7°F 49.8°F 2.66 in 80.3°F 51.8°F 2.74 in
June 88.8°F 60.3°F 3.31 in 89.2°F 62.1°F 3.22 in
July 93.2°F 65.1°F 3.20 in 93.4°F 66.2°F 2.57 in
August 91.2°F 63.6°F 2.72 in 91.3°F 65.0°F 3.07 in
September 83.9°F 55.0°F 1.53 in 83.8°F 57.4°F 1.91 in
October 71.5°F 42.2°F 2.29 in 72.7°F 45.3°F 1.97 in
November 58.3°F 28.6°F 0.73 in 60.1°F 33.4°F 0.80 in
December 47.4°F 20.8°F 0.80 in 50.2°F 25.2°F 0.91 in

Cities that consider Kismet their climate twin

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

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 →