Climate twins of Seneca, KS

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

Top match: Trumbull, NE

Month Seneca Trumbull
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.8°F 14.6°F 0.62 in 35.5°F 15.2°F 0.62 in
February 39.4°F 18.2°F 0.98 in 39.9°F 18.5°F 0.83 in
March 52.9°F 28.5°F 2.14 in 52.2°F 28.0°F 1.39 in
April 63.0°F 39.0°F 3.16 in 62.5°F 37.7°F 3.00 in
May 72.9°F 52.2°F 4.35 in 72.6°F 49.5°F 4.56 in
June 82.5°F 61.8°F 3.98 in 83.1°F 60.3°F 3.86 in
July 86.5°F 64.7°F 3.69 in 86.8°F 64.6°F 3.79 in
August 85.0°F 63.0°F 3.36 in 84.5°F 62.3°F 3.39 in
September 78.3°F 53.4°F 2.51 in 78.3°F 53.2°F 2.23 in
October 66.0°F 41.2°F 2.56 in 64.9°F 40.1°F 2.01 in
November 50.8°F 29.0°F 1.78 in 50.2°F 27.5°F 1.25 in
December 39.0°F 19.7°F 1.33 in 38.2°F 18.3°F 0.90 in

Cities that consider Seneca their climate twin

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