Climate twins of Oberlin, KS

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

Top match: Yuma, CO

Month	Oberlin			Yuma
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	41.7°F	15.8°F	0.42 in	42.6°F	17.2°F	0.29 in
February	44.9°F	18.4°F	0.68 in	45.2°F	18.8°F	0.44 in
March	56.1°F	26.4°F	1.03 in	56.2°F	27.1°F	0.81 in
April	64.6°F	36.0°F	2.13 in	63.3°F	34.5°F	1.64 in
May	74.1°F	46.8°F	3.30 in	73.2°F	45.8°F	2.94 in
June	85.9°F	58.3°F	3.01 in	85.8°F	56.4°F	2.49 in
July	90.9°F	63.8°F	3.27 in	91.8°F	62.1°F	3.07 in
August	88.7°F	61.5°F	3.07 in	88.9°F	59.7°F	2.64 in
September	80.9°F	51.4°F	1.72 in	80.6°F	50.2°F	1.44 in
October	67.6°F	37.5°F	1.69 in	66.3°F	36.9°F	1.25 in
November	53.9°F	25.4°F	0.80 in	53.2°F	26.0°F	0.50 in
December	42.6°F	17.0°F	0.67 in	42.9°F	17.6°F	0.45 in

Cities that consider Oberlin their climate twin

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

Yuma, CO (ranks Oberlin #3)

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 →