Climate twins of Merna, NE

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Merna'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
Wood, SD
similarity distance: 0.942 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Murdo, SD
similarity distance: 0.951 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Draper, SD
similarity distance: 0.951 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Merna vs its climate twin

Top match: Wood, SD

Month Merna Wood
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 36.9°F 11.5°F 0.32 in 33.9°F 11.1°F 0.43 in
February 40.0°F 14.2°F 0.47 in 37.5°F 13.2°F 0.64 in
March 51.0°F 22.8°F 1.29 in 48.0°F 22.3°F 1.21 in
April 60.1°F 32.0°F 2.52 in 58.0°F 31.8°F 2.42 in
May 69.9°F 43.6°F 4.03 in 68.8°F 43.6°F 3.36 in
June 80.5°F 55.1°F 3.73 in 79.4°F 54.1°F 3.50 in
July 86.1°F 60.1°F 3.12 in 87.5°F 60.1°F 2.42 in
August 84.4°F 57.7°F 2.48 in 86.2°F 57.9°F 1.94 in
September 77.1°F 47.7°F 2.03 in 77.7°F 48.4°F 1.82 in
October 63.9°F 33.9°F 1.83 in 62.3°F 34.9°F 1.55 in
November 50.1°F 21.6°F 0.72 in 48.0°F 23.1°F 0.69 in
December 39.0°F 13.4°F 0.50 in 36.6°F 14.3°F 0.51 in

Cities that consider Merna their climate twin

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