Climate twins of Silver Creek, NE

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Silver Creek'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.

Rank 1 closest
Brewster, NE
similarity distance: 0.868 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Corsica, SD
similarity distance: 0.898 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Armour, SD
similarity distance: 0.898 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Silver Creek vs its climate twin

Top match: Brewster, NE

Month Silver Creek Brewster
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.2°F 13.4°F 0.67 in 40.2°F 14.8°F 0.54 in
February 38.7°F 16.8°F 0.79 in 43.3°F 17.2°F 0.80 in
March 51.5°F 27.1°F 1.60 in 54.8°F 25.9°F 1.44 in
April 62.8°F 37.3°F 2.98 in 64.1°F 35.2°F 2.64 in
May 72.7°F 49.0°F 4.37 in 74.1°F 46.4°F 4.15 in
June 82.0°F 59.7°F 4.42 in 83.8°F 56.6°F 4.24 in
July 85.4°F 63.6°F 2.96 in 90.0°F 62.1°F 3.09 in
August 83.0°F 61.4°F 3.03 in 88.0°F 60.0°F 2.94 in
September 77.6°F 52.3°F 2.52 in 81.3°F 50.4°F 2.39 in
October 64.7°F 39.0°F 2.17 in 67.4°F 37.2°F 1.79 in
November 49.5°F 26.2°F 1.23 in 53.0°F 25.0°F 0.78 in
December 36.9°F 16.8°F 0.95 in 41.6°F 16.5°F 0.71 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 →