Climate twins of Staplehurst, NE

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Staplehurst'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
Holdrege, NE
similarity distance: 1.003 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Funk, NE
similarity distance: 1.003 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Atlanta, NE
similarity distance: 1.003 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Staplehurst vs its climate twin

Top match: Holdrege, NE

Month Staplehurst Holdrege
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.9°F 12.0°F 0.65 in 36.7°F 13.2°F 0.56 in
February 37.6°F 16.1°F 0.67 in 40.6°F 15.9°F 0.69 in
March 50.0°F 26.6°F 1.49 in 52.4°F 24.9°F 1.63 in
April 61.5°F 37.6°F 2.46 in 62.4°F 34.9°F 2.81 in
May 71.9°F 50.2°F 4.87 in 72.2°F 46.3°F 4.42 in
June 81.9°F 60.9°F 4.70 in 83.2°F 57.3°F 3.90 in
July 85.7°F 65.2°F 3.56 in 87.3°F 62.4°F 4.23 in
August 83.8°F 62.4°F 3.46 in 85.1°F 60.2°F 3.59 in
September 77.5°F 53.0°F 2.46 in 78.5°F 50.9°F 2.08 in
October 64.8°F 39.3°F 2.20 in 65.2°F 37.6°F 2.03 in
November 49.6°F 26.4°F 1.23 in 50.9°F 24.9°F 0.94 in
December 36.2°F 16.2°F 0.92 in 39.1°F 16.2°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 →