Climate twins of Marquette, KS

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

Top match: Lincoln, NE

Month	Marquette			Lincoln
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	41.7°F	19.4°F	0.71 in	35.6°F	14.4°F	0.73 in
February	45.9°F	21.8°F	1.12 in	40.6°F	18.4°F	0.89 in
March	56.6°F	31.0°F	1.69 in	53.6°F	28.7°F	1.55 in
April	66.2°F	40.0°F	2.54 in	64.8°F	39.2°F	2.69 in
May	75.5°F	51.6°F	4.90 in	75.0°F	51.2°F	4.91 in
June	86.7°F	62.5°F	4.13 in	85.2°F	62.1°F	4.48 in
July	91.8°F	67.0°F	3.95 in	89.4°F	66.7°F	3.25 in
August	89.7°F	64.7°F	3.51 in	87.2°F	64.1°F	3.32 in
September	81.6°F	56.1°F	2.73 in	80.1°F	54.3°F	2.90 in
October	69.5°F	43.7°F	2.27 in	66.6°F	41.0°F	2.14 in
November	55.4°F	31.1°F	1.09 in	51.7°F	28.0°F	1.30 in
December	43.9°F	22.3°F	0.97 in	39.4°F	18.2°F	1.18 in

Cities that consider Marquette their climate twin

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

Lincoln, NE (ranks Marquette #1)
WaKeeney, KS (ranks Marquette #3)

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 →