Climate twins of Olpe, KS

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

Top match: Smithton, MO

Month Olpe Smithton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 41.3°F 20.7°F 0.78 in 38.6°F 21.2°F 1.53 in
February 46.5°F 24.2°F 1.31 in 43.8°F 25.2°F 1.68 in
March 57.4°F 33.7°F 2.12 in 55.2°F 34.5°F 2.49 in
April 67.3°F 43.6°F 3.84 in 65.4°F 44.0°F 3.78 in
May 75.9°F 54.2°F 5.01 in 74.4°F 54.2°F 4.68 in
June 85.0°F 63.5°F 4.53 in 83.2°F 63.5°F 4.46 in
July 90.0°F 68.0°F 3.90 in 87.3°F 67.4°F 4.52 in
August 89.2°F 65.8°F 3.86 in 86.5°F 65.3°F 2.84 in
September 80.8°F 57.2°F 3.25 in 78.7°F 56.9°F 3.01 in
October 69.2°F 45.2°F 3.06 in 67.1°F 45.7°F 3.09 in
November 55.9°F 33.3°F 1.85 in 53.8°F 34.9°F 2.45 in
December 44.3°F 24.2°F 1.30 in 42.8°F 25.7°F 1.67 in

Cities that consider Olpe their climate twin

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