Climate twins of Scottsville, KS
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Scottsville'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: Scottsville vs its climate twin
Top match: Sawyer, KS
| Month | Scottsville | Sawyer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 39.5°F | 16.9°F | 0.68 in | 43.1°F | 19.1°F | 0.64 in |
| February | 44.1°F | 20.7°F | 0.82 in | 47.7°F | 22.4°F | 0.99 in |
| March | 55.7°F | 29.9°F | 1.45 in | 57.5°F | 31.1°F | 1.97 in |
| April | 65.7°F | 40.7°F | 2.60 in | 66.7°F | 40.5°F | 2.67 in |
| May | 75.4°F | 52.4°F | 4.39 in | 76.5°F | 52.2°F | 3.80 in |
| June | 86.9°F | 63.4°F | 3.77 in | 86.7°F | 62.5°F | 4.10 in |
| July | 91.8°F | 68.4°F | 4.84 in | 91.5°F | 66.9°F | 3.25 in |
| August | 89.1°F | 66.1°F | 3.58 in | 89.7°F | 65.3°F | 3.36 in |
| September | 81.6°F | 57.0°F | 2.72 in | 81.9°F | 56.7°F | 2.32 in |
| October | 68.6°F | 42.7°F | 1.98 in | 69.8°F | 43.4°F | 2.23 in |
| November | 54.2°F | 30.0°F | 1.21 in | 55.9°F | 30.8°F | 1.18 in |
| December | 42.1°F | 20.1°F | 1.04 in | 44.6°F | 21.6°F | 1.11 in |
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 →