Climate twins of Primghar, IA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Primghar'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: Primghar vs its climate twin
Top match: Creighton, NE
| Month | Primghar | Creighton | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 26.7°F | 9.4°F | 0.82 in | 31.2°F | 10.5°F | 0.60 in |
| February | 31.8°F | 13.8°F | 0.89 in | 35.9°F | 13.6°F | 0.79 in |
| March | 45.5°F | 25.6°F | 1.70 in | 48.0°F | 23.8°F | 1.67 in |
| April | 60.5°F | 36.9°F | 3.30 in | 59.7°F | 35.1°F | 3.04 in |
| May | 71.9°F | 49.3°F | 4.11 in | 71.4°F | 48.0°F | 4.29 in |
| June | 81.5°F | 59.9°F | 4.98 in | 81.5°F | 58.6°F | 4.27 in |
| July | 84.6°F | 63.9°F | 3.88 in | 86.2°F | 63.1°F | 3.53 in |
| August | 82.0°F | 61.8°F | 3.58 in | 84.1°F | 60.3°F | 3.65 in |
| September | 76.2°F | 53.2°F | 3.30 in | 76.7°F | 50.8°F | 3.07 in |
| October | 62.4°F | 40.3°F | 2.28 in | 63.5°F | 37.3°F | 2.26 in |
| November | 45.3°F | 26.7°F | 1.49 in | 47.5°F | 24.6°F | 1.01 in |
| December | 31.4°F | 15.3°F | 1.02 in | 33.6°F | 14.5°F | 0.95 in |
Cities that consider Primghar their climate twin
These US cities have Primghar in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Primghar would feel familiar.
- Plainview, NE (ranks Primghar #1)
- Center, NE (ranks Primghar #1)
- Creighton, NE (ranks Primghar #1)
- Bazile Mills, NE (ranks Primghar #1)
- Winnetoon, NE (ranks Primghar #1)
- Dwight, NE (ranks Primghar #1)
- Foster, NE (ranks Primghar #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 →