Climate twins of Lexington, NE
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Lexington'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: Lexington vs its climate twin
Top match: Winner, SD
| Month | Lexington | Winner | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 38.0°F | 15.2°F | 0.43 in | 35.2°F | 12.5°F | 0.54 in |
| February | 41.3°F | 17.8°F | 0.51 in | 39.3°F | 14.9°F | 0.64 in |
| March | 52.5°F | 27.0°F | 1.18 in | 49.9°F | 24.1°F | 1.12 in |
| April | 61.7°F | 36.7°F | 2.48 in | 60.7°F | 34.7°F | 2.81 in |
| May | 71.7°F | 48.3°F | 3.76 in | 71.5°F | 46.8°F | 3.63 in |
| June | 82.1°F | 59.2°F | 3.86 in | 81.8°F | 57.1°F | 3.92 in |
| July | 86.4°F | 64.1°F | 3.29 in | 89.6°F | 63.1°F | 2.62 in |
| August | 84.3°F | 61.7°F | 2.99 in | 87.3°F | 61.0°F | 2.42 in |
| September | 78.0°F | 52.1°F | 1.81 in | 79.5°F | 52.0°F | 2.15 in |
| October | 65.1°F | 38.3°F | 1.74 in | 64.7°F | 38.4°F | 1.82 in |
| November | 51.3°F | 26.4°F | 0.74 in | 49.5°F | 25.7°F | 0.81 in |
| December | 39.8°F | 17.6°F | 0.60 in | 37.0°F | 16.0°F | 0.69 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 →