Climate twins of Platte Center, NE
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Platte Center'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: Platte Center vs its climate twin
Top match: Brewster, NE
| Month | Platte Center | Brewster | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 32.3°F | 13.8°F | 0.65 in | 40.2°F | 14.8°F | 0.54 in |
| February | 36.6°F | 17.7°F | 0.73 in | 43.3°F | 17.2°F | 0.80 in |
| March | 49.6°F | 28.2°F | 1.39 in | 54.8°F | 25.9°F | 1.44 in |
| April | 61.7°F | 39.0°F | 2.93 in | 64.1°F | 35.2°F | 2.64 in |
| May | 72.8°F | 51.0°F | 4.57 in | 74.1°F | 46.4°F | 4.15 in |
| June | 83.1°F | 61.7°F | 4.69 in | 83.8°F | 56.6°F | 4.24 in |
| July | 86.9°F | 66.0°F | 3.46 in | 90.0°F | 62.1°F | 3.09 in |
| August | 84.2°F | 63.6°F | 3.27 in | 88.0°F | 60.0°F | 2.94 in |
| September | 77.4°F | 54.5°F | 2.48 in | 81.3°F | 50.4°F | 2.39 in |
| October | 63.0°F | 41.1°F | 2.35 in | 67.4°F | 37.2°F | 1.79 in |
| November | 47.7°F | 27.7°F | 1.22 in | 53.0°F | 25.0°F | 0.78 in |
| December | 35.5°F | 17.7°F | 0.93 in | 41.6°F | 16.5°F | 0.71 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 →