Climate twins of McDonald, KS
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches McDonald'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: McDonald vs its climate twin
Top match: Republican City, NE
| Month | McDonald | Republican City | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 42.2°F | 16.8°F | 0.46 in | 39.0°F | 14.3°F | 0.38 in |
| February | 45.0°F | 18.9°F | 0.56 in | 44.2°F | 17.8°F | 0.50 in |
| March | 55.8°F | 26.4°F | 1.08 in | 55.5°F | 27.3°F | 1.26 in |
| April | 64.0°F | 34.4°F | 2.22 in | 64.6°F | 37.3°F | 2.43 in |
| May | 73.8°F | 45.3°F | 3.02 in | 73.7°F | 48.9°F | 4.06 in |
| June | 85.6°F | 56.4°F | 2.95 in | 84.7°F | 60.0°F | 3.57 in |
| July | 90.9°F | 61.9°F | 3.29 in | 90.0°F | 65.4°F | 4.05 in |
| August | 88.8°F | 60.0°F | 3.03 in | 87.6°F | 63.0°F | 3.19 in |
| September | 81.5°F | 51.1°F | 1.31 in | 80.7°F | 53.3°F | 1.64 in |
| October | 67.8°F | 38.0°F | 1.59 in | 67.8°F | 39.2°F | 1.95 in |
| November | 53.7°F | 26.4°F | 0.74 in | 53.5°F | 26.6°F | 0.83 in |
| December | 43.4°F | 18.3°F | 0.55 in | 41.7°F | 18.2°F | 0.81 in |
Cities that consider McDonald their climate twin
These US cities have McDonald in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, McDonald would feel familiar.
- Republican City, NE (ranks McDonald #2)
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 →