Climate twins of Salix, IA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Salix'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: Salix vs its climate twin
Top match: Bartlett, NE
| Month | Salix | Bartlett | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 29.5°F | 10.4°F | 0.69 in | 34.5°F | 12.4°F | 0.76 in |
| February | 34.2°F | 14.8°F | 0.86 in | 38.4°F | 15.8°F | 0.66 in |
| March | 47.6°F | 25.9°F | 1.76 in | 50.6°F | 25.0°F | 1.35 in |
| April | 61.1°F | 36.7°F | 3.15 in | 61.6°F | 34.7°F | 2.94 in |
| May | 72.3°F | 48.7°F | 3.87 in | 72.2°F | 45.9°F | 3.97 in |
| June | 81.9°F | 59.4°F | 4.35 in | 82.8°F | 57.7°F | 4.04 in |
| July | 85.0°F | 63.4°F | 3.35 in | 87.8°F | 62.6°F | 3.44 in |
| August | 82.6°F | 60.8°F | 3.94 in | 85.2°F | 60.7°F | 3.39 in |
| September | 76.6°F | 51.2°F | 2.84 in | 77.9°F | 51.0°F | 2.40 in |
| October | 62.8°F | 37.9°F | 2.20 in | 64.8°F | 37.5°F | 2.43 in |
| November | 46.8°F | 25.0°F | 1.27 in | 49.7°F | 25.4°F | 0.97 in |
| December | 33.4°F | 14.8°F | 0.99 in | 37.4°F | 16.3°F | 0.83 in |
Cities that consider Salix their climate twin
These US cities have Salix in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Salix would feel familiar.
- Page, NE (ranks Salix #3)
- Ewing, NE (ranks Salix #1)
- Gross, NE (ranks Salix #2)
- Howard City (Boelus), NE (ranks Salix #2)
- Rockville, NE (ranks Salix #2)
- Ravenna, NE (ranks Salix #2)
- Chambers, NE (ranks Salix #3)
- Scotia, NE (ranks Salix #3)
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 →