Climate twins of Richfield, KS

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

Top match: Bishop Hills, TX

Month Richfield Bishop Hills
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 48.4°F 19.1°F 0.39 in 51.3°F 20.5°F 0.66 in
February 52.6°F 21.7°F 0.35 in 54.6°F 23.8°F 0.54 in
March 60.9°F 28.0°F 0.98 in 63.2°F 30.8°F 1.26 in
April 69.9°F 36.4°F 1.32 in 70.1°F 38.0°F 1.39 in
May 79.3°F 48.1°F 2.09 in 79.4°F 49.0°F 2.46 in
June 89.7°F 59.1°F 2.64 in 88.1°F 59.6°F 2.78 in
July 94.5°F 63.9°F 2.74 in 90.7°F 62.8°F 2.49 in
August 91.3°F 62.0°F 2.87 in 89.4°F 61.6°F 2.83 in
September 84.9°F 53.3°F 1.54 in 83.1°F 53.6°F 1.43 in
October 72.7°F 39.7°F 1.70 in 72.5°F 41.7°F 2.05 in
November 59.7°F 28.1°F 0.42 in 59.6°F 29.5°F 0.80 in
December 48.9°F 20.5°F 0.63 in 51.4°F 22.1°F 0.56 in

Cities that consider Richfield their climate twin

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