Climate twins of Lewis, KS

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Lewis'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.

Rank 1 closest
Miami, TX
similarity distance: 1.358 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Green, KS
similarity distance: 1.443 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Clay Center, KS
similarity distance: 1.443 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Lewis vs its climate twin

Top match: Miami, TX

Month Lewis Miami
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 45.9°F 18.3°F 0.62 in 49.3°F 22.0°F 0.87 in
February 49.2°F 21.6°F 0.75 in 52.8°F 24.7°F 0.59 in
March 59.5°F 30.3°F 1.78 in 62.0°F 33.3°F 1.35 in
April 68.4°F 39.4°F 2.51 in 70.2°F 41.3°F 2.17 in
May 77.6°F 50.3°F 3.75 in 79.1°F 51.5°F 3.49 in
June 88.2°F 60.8°F 3.57 in 87.9°F 62.4°F 2.91 in
July 92.7°F 65.7°F 3.85 in 92.4°F 66.4°F 2.58 in
August 91.3°F 64.4°F 3.53 in 91.3°F 65.2°F 3.18 in
September 83.3°F 55.7°F 2.13 in 83.0°F 57.1°F 2.08 in
October 71.9°F 41.7°F 2.34 in 72.5°F 44.2°F 2.92 in
November 58.3°F 29.3°F 0.97 in 59.9°F 31.9°F 0.88 in
December 47.1°F 20.2°F 0.95 in 49.8°F 23.3°F 1.13 in

Cities that consider Lewis their climate twin

These US cities have Lewis in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Lewis 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 →