Climate twins of Valentine, NE
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Valentine'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: Valentine vs its climate twin
Top match: Wallace, NE
| Month | Valentine | Wallace | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 35.8°F | 12.9°F | 0.27 in | 39.3°F | 13.0°F | 0.30 in |
| February | 38.8°F | 15.4°F | 0.52 in | 42.2°F | 15.2°F | 0.56 in |
| March | 50.1°F | 25.0°F | 0.94 in | 52.9°F | 23.3°F | 0.88 in |
| April | 59.6°F | 34.9°F | 2.37 in | 61.5°F | 32.0°F | 2.22 in |
| May | 70.7°F | 45.5°F | 3.62 in | 71.5°F | 44.2°F | 3.47 in |
| June | 81.8°F | 56.5°F | 4.03 in | 83.2°F | 55.1°F | 3.83 in |
| July | 89.1°F | 62.3°F | 2.82 in | 89.0°F | 60.3°F | 3.24 in |
| August | 86.7°F | 60.2°F | 2.17 in | 86.8°F | 57.5°F | 2.65 in |
| September | 78.1°F | 50.4°F | 1.70 in | 79.0°F | 47.3°F | 1.56 in |
| October | 62.4°F | 36.3°F | 1.38 in | 65.3°F | 33.8°F | 1.66 in |
| November | 48.7°F | 23.6°F | 0.52 in | 51.5°F | 22.9°F | 0.51 in |
| December | 36.7°F | 14.8°F | 0.45 in | 41.0°F | 14.2°F | 0.49 in |
Cities that consider Valentine their climate twin
These US cities have Valentine in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Valentine would feel familiar.
- Wallace, NE (ranks Valentine #1)
- Lamar, NE (ranks Valentine #2)
- Grant, NE (ranks Valentine #3)
- Elsie, NE (ranks Valentine #1)
- Madrid, NE (ranks Valentine #2)
- Eustis, NE (ranks Valentine #3)
- Farnam, NE (ranks Valentine #3)
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 →