Climate twins of Russell Springs, KS

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

Top match: Sterling, CO

Month	Russell Springs			Sterling
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	43.5°F	16.0°F	0.31 in	42.1°F	15.6°F	0.33 in
February	46.8°F	18.0°F	0.54 in	45.6°F	18.5°F	0.54 in
March	57.2°F	25.8°F	0.86 in	56.7°F	26.7°F	0.77 in
April	65.9°F	34.9°F	1.83 in	63.7°F	35.3°F	1.32 in
May	75.4°F	46.0°F	2.66 in	73.4°F	45.5°F	2.24 in
June	87.4°F	57.0°F	2.34 in	84.9°F	56.7°F	2.20 in
July	92.8°F	63.2°F	3.00 in	91.2°F	62.2°F	2.67 in
August	89.9°F	61.0°F	2.56 in	88.6°F	59.6°F	1.52 in
September	82.0°F	51.9°F	1.58 in	81.3°F	49.0°F	1.63 in
October	68.9°F	37.6°F	1.37 in	66.2°F	35.3°F	1.22 in
November	54.9°F	25.0°F	0.60 in	53.1°F	24.4°F	0.45 in
December	44.3°F	16.9°F	0.54 in	41.8°F	15.5°F	0.35 in

Cities that consider Russell Springs their climate twin

These US cities have Russell Springs in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Russell Springs would feel familiar.

Las Animas, CO (ranks Russell Springs #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 →