Climate twins of White River, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches White River'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: White River vs its climate twin
Top match: Sutherland, NE
| Month | White River | Sutherland | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 35.1°F | 12.2°F | 0.46 in | 38.9°F | 14.4°F | 0.23 in |
| February | 38.6°F | 14.6°F | 0.60 in | 42.0°F | 16.5°F | 0.43 in |
| March | 49.6°F | 23.8°F | 0.88 in | 52.8°F | 24.3°F | 0.85 in |
| April | 59.2°F | 33.5°F | 2.37 in | 61.5°F | 33.0°F | 1.99 in |
| May | 69.9°F | 45.1°F | 3.44 in | 71.4°F | 44.1°F | 3.33 in |
| June | 80.6°F | 54.8°F | 3.46 in | 82.5°F | 54.8°F | 3.82 in |
| July | 89.6°F | 61.5°F | 2.62 in | 88.3°F | 60.4°F | 2.68 in |
| August | 88.2°F | 59.7°F | 2.17 in | 86.5°F | 58.3°F | 2.21 in |
| September | 79.5°F | 50.3°F | 1.63 in | 79.1°F | 48.8°F | 1.58 in |
| October | 63.5°F | 36.7°F | 1.79 in | 65.4°F | 35.7°F | 1.79 in |
| November | 48.8°F | 24.6°F | 0.55 in | 51.4°F | 23.9°F | 0.38 in |
| December | 37.5°F | 15.6°F | 0.44 in | 40.5°F | 15.7°F | 0.29 in |
Cities that consider White River their climate twin
These US cities have White River in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, White River would feel familiar.
- Hershey, NE (ranks White River #1)
- Sutherland, NE (ranks White River #1)
- Maxwell, NE (ranks White River #1)
- Wallace, NE (ranks White River #2)
- Lamar, NE (ranks White River #1)
- Sedgwick, CO (ranks White River #2)
- Ogallala, NE (ranks White River #3)
- Brule, NE (ranks White River #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 →