Climate twins of Winfield, KS

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

Top match: Grain Valley, MO

Month Winfield Grain Valley
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 44.2°F 20.2°F 1.10 in 39.0°F 22.1°F 0.96 in
February 49.2°F 23.6°F 1.54 in 44.3°F 25.9°F 1.43 in
March 59.1°F 32.9°F 2.91 in 55.4°F 35.4°F 2.14 in
April 68.4°F 42.5°F 4.05 in 65.5°F 45.5°F 4.19 in
May 76.5°F 53.9°F 6.02 in 74.8°F 55.9°F 5.70 in
June 85.7°F 63.5°F 5.69 in 84.0°F 65.4°F 4.95 in
July 91.1°F 68.2°F 4.26 in 88.3°F 69.7°F 4.57 in
August 90.2°F 66.0°F 4.53 in 86.9°F 67.6°F 4.54 in
September 82.2°F 57.8°F 3.13 in 79.0°F 59.0°F 3.07 in
October 70.8°F 44.8°F 3.67 in 67.1°F 47.2°F 3.39 in
November 57.6°F 32.8°F 2.12 in 54.0°F 36.2°F 2.05 in
December 46.1°F 23.4°F 1.67 in 43.2°F 26.3°F 1.35 in

Cities that consider Winfield their climate twin

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