Climate twins of Norton, KS

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

Top match: York, NE

Month	Norton			York
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	39.5°F	14.3°F	0.44 in	34.1°F	13.9°F	0.77 in
February	43.1°F	17.1°F	0.52 in	39.1°F	17.3°F	0.71 in
March	54.9°F	25.5°F	1.20 in	51.1°F	27.3°F	1.76 in
April	64.7°F	35.0°F	2.71 in	62.7°F	37.9°F	2.72 in
May	74.7°F	46.6°F	4.26 in	73.0°F	49.7°F	5.00 in
June	86.7°F	57.8°F	3.19 in	83.9°F	61.8°F	4.18 in
July	92.1°F	63.6°F	4.23 in	87.9°F	65.9°F	3.52 in
August	89.3°F	61.2°F	3.63 in	85.5°F	62.9°F	3.62 in
September	81.0°F	51.7°F	2.10 in	78.8°F	53.9°F	2.19 in
October	66.9°F	37.6°F	2.27 in	65.7°F	40.8°F	1.89 in
November	52.6°F	25.3°F	0.91 in	50.2°F	27.6°F	1.33 in
December	41.1°F	16.3°F	0.76 in	37.6°F	18.7°F	0.96 in

Cities that consider Norton their climate twin

These US cities have Norton in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Norton would feel familiar.

York, NE (ranks Norton #2)
Benedict, NE (ranks Norton #2)
Geneva, NE (ranks Norton #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 →