Climate twins of Pleasanton, NE

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

Top match: Wisner, NE

Month Pleasanton Wisner
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 37.0°F 11.9°F 0.52 in 31.3°F 11.0°F 0.61 in
February 40.6°F 14.6°F 0.64 in 36.0°F 14.4°F 0.76 in
March 52.7°F 23.9°F 1.39 in 47.9°F 24.6°F 1.31 in
April 62.8°F 34.0°F 2.70 in 60.6°F 35.4°F 2.54 in
May 72.6°F 46.6°F 3.94 in 71.2°F 47.3°F 3.54 in
June 82.8°F 57.7°F 4.41 in 81.0°F 58.6°F 4.11 in
July 87.0°F 62.9°F 3.77 in 85.1°F 62.3°F 3.08 in
August 84.9°F 60.1°F 3.34 in 82.4°F 60.0°F 3.67 in
September 78.3°F 50.2°F 2.06 in 76.4°F 50.7°F 2.55 in
October 65.7°F 36.1°F 2.10 in 63.5°F 38.1°F 2.13 in
November 51.3°F 23.4°F 0.96 in 48.2°F 25.3°F 1.16 in
December 39.2°F 14.3°F 0.67 in 35.2°F 15.4°F 0.78 in

Cities that consider Pleasanton their climate twin

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