Climate twins of Medicine Lodge, KS
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Medicine Lodge'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: Medicine Lodge vs its climate twin
Top match: Shamrock, TX
| Month | Medicine Lodge | Shamrock | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 46.2°F | 22.0°F | 0.80 in | 50.4°F | 23.8°F | 0.84 in |
| February | 50.4°F | 25.6°F | 1.03 in | 54.5°F | 26.7°F | 0.90 in |
| March | 60.2°F | 34.7°F | 2.03 in | 63.6°F | 34.6°F | 1.70 in |
| April | 70.0°F | 43.8°F | 2.43 in | 72.0°F | 42.9°F | 2.50 in |
| May | 79.3°F | 54.6°F | 3.65 in | 80.5°F | 53.0°F | 3.36 in |
| June | 90.1°F | 65.0°F | 3.93 in | 89.3°F | 63.1°F | 3.73 in |
| July | 94.4°F | 69.5°F | 3.13 in | 93.8°F | 67.7°F | 2.41 in |
| August | 92.4°F | 67.6°F | 3.51 in | 92.5°F | 66.1°F | 2.80 in |
| September | 84.4°F | 59.1°F | 2.61 in | 84.8°F | 58.2°F | 2.42 in |
| October | 71.8°F | 45.2°F | 2.44 in | 73.4°F | 45.4°F | 2.31 in |
| November | 58.3°F | 32.9°F | 1.10 in | 61.1°F | 33.8°F | 1.29 in |
| December | 47.0°F | 24.0°F | 1.09 in | 51.4°F | 25.5°F | 1.03 in |
Cities that consider Medicine Lodge their climate twin
These US cities have Medicine Lodge in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Medicine Lodge would feel familiar.
- Shamrock, TX (ranks Medicine Lodge #2)
- Erick, OK (ranks Medicine Lodge #2)
- Texola, OK (ranks Medicine Lodge #2)
- Dill City, OK (ranks Medicine Lodge #2)
- Perryton, TX (ranks Medicine Lodge #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 →