Climate twins of Long Pine, NE

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Long Pine'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
Hayes Center, NE
similarity distance: 0.865 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Oxford, NE
similarity distance: 0.958 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Axtell, NE
similarity distance: 1.034 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Long Pine vs its climate twin

Top match: Hayes Center, NE

Month Long Pine Hayes Center
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 36.9°F 15.2°F 0.42 in 39.8°F 14.8°F 0.38 in
February 40.1°F 17.6°F 0.63 in 42.8°F 16.9°F 0.53 in
March 51.4°F 26.4°F 1.20 in 53.9°F 25.1°F 1.13 in
April 61.2°F 35.5°F 2.64 in 62.2°F 33.6°F 2.09 in
May 71.4°F 46.8°F 3.80 in 71.7°F 44.6°F 3.56 in
June 81.4°F 57.2°F 3.77 in 83.1°F 55.5°F 3.27 in
July 87.8°F 62.9°F 3.05 in 89.1°F 60.8°F 3.26 in
August 85.6°F 60.9°F 2.81 in 86.9°F 58.9°F 2.82 in
September 78.4°F 52.1°F 2.56 in 79.2°F 49.5°F 1.71 in
October 64.4°F 39.1°F 1.73 in 65.6°F 36.5°F 1.67 in
November 49.6°F 27.0°F 0.63 in 51.9°F 24.7°F 0.61 in
December 38.3°F 18.0°F 0.57 in 41.1°F 16.5°F 0.48 in

Cities that consider Long Pine their climate twin

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