Climate twins of Scott City, KS

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

Top match: Maywood, NE

Month Scott City Maywood
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.9°F 15.9°F 0.44 in 41.8°F 13.5°F 0.35 in
February 47.3°F 18.7°F 0.52 in 45.0°F 16.4°F 0.51 in
March 57.8°F 26.7°F 1.13 in 57.1°F 25.5°F 0.93 in
April 66.6°F 35.4°F 1.88 in 66.0°F 35.6°F 2.19 in
May 76.5°F 46.9°F 2.65 in 75.1°F 46.6°F 3.69 in
June 87.7°F 58.3°F 3.16 in 85.9°F 58.2°F 3.66 in
July 92.5°F 63.4°F 3.06 in 91.4°F 62.7°F 2.96 in
August 89.8°F 61.4°F 3.05 in 89.4°F 60.5°F 2.65 in
September 82.3°F 52.3°F 1.45 in 82.3°F 50.1°F 1.51 in
October 69.3°F 38.4°F 1.53 in 68.9°F 36.5°F 1.65 in
November 55.5°F 26.0°F 0.64 in 54.9°F 24.0°F 0.71 in
December 44.9°F 17.5°F 0.67 in 43.1°F 15.2°F 0.49 in

Cities that consider Scott City their climate twin

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