Climate twins of New Witten, SD

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

Top match: Maxwell, NE

Month New Witten Maxwell
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.8°F 14.5°F 0.21 in 40.7°F 11.9°F 0.39 in
February 38.8°F 17.0°F 0.30 in 43.9°F 14.8°F 0.57 in
March 49.8°F 26.4°F 0.84 in 55.2°F 23.9°F 1.00 in
April 60.1°F 36.0°F 2.11 in 63.2°F 33.2°F 2.29 in
May 70.8°F 47.1°F 3.39 in 72.8°F 44.2°F 3.35 in
June 81.7°F 58.0°F 3.72 in 84.0°F 55.4°F 3.54 in
July 89.6°F 64.3°F 2.36 in 89.7°F 61.4°F 3.18 in
August 87.4°F 62.3°F 2.53 in 87.2°F 58.8°F 2.56 in
September 79.2°F 53.0°F 1.81 in 80.0°F 48.3°F 1.61 in
October 63.8°F 39.3°F 1.48 in 66.0°F 34.3°F 1.65 in
November 49.0°F 26.6°F 0.44 in 52.6°F 21.4°F 0.49 in
December 37.4°F 17.7°F 0.26 in 42.0°F 13.1°F 0.45 in

Cities that consider New Witten their climate twin

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