Climate twins of Montezuma, KS

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Montezuma'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
Bishop Hills, TX
similarity distance: 1.090 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Tulia, TX
similarity distance: 1.278 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Danbury, NE
similarity distance: 1.336 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Montezuma vs its climate twin

Top match: Bishop Hills, TX

Month Montezuma Bishop Hills
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 46.5°F 18.5°F 0.56 in 51.3°F 20.5°F 0.66 in
February 50.4°F 20.9°F 0.55 in 54.6°F 23.8°F 0.54 in
March 60.1°F 29.0°F 1.27 in 63.2°F 30.8°F 1.26 in
April 68.6°F 37.5°F 1.81 in 70.1°F 38.0°F 1.39 in
May 78.2°F 48.8°F 2.78 in 79.4°F 49.0°F 2.46 in
June 87.7°F 59.7°F 3.46 in 88.1°F 59.6°F 2.78 in
July 93.3°F 64.6°F 3.20 in 90.7°F 62.8°F 2.49 in
August 90.4°F 62.7°F 3.04 in 89.4°F 61.6°F 2.83 in
September 83.3°F 54.2°F 1.39 in 83.1°F 53.6°F 1.43 in
October 71.1°F 40.8°F 2.01 in 72.5°F 41.7°F 2.05 in
November 58.1°F 28.2°F 0.75 in 59.6°F 29.5°F 0.80 in
December 46.9°F 20.0°F 0.91 in 51.4°F 22.1°F 0.56 in

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 →