Climate twins of Winner, SD

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

Top match: Berwyn, NE

Month Winner Berwyn
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.2°F 12.5°F 0.54 in 38.2°F 14.9°F 0.35 in
February 39.3°F 14.9°F 0.64 in 41.0°F 16.7°F 0.46 in
March 49.9°F 24.1°F 1.12 in 52.5°F 26.5°F 1.16 in
April 60.7°F 34.7°F 2.81 in 61.8°F 35.5°F 2.70 in
May 71.5°F 46.8°F 3.63 in 71.4°F 47.2°F 3.95 in
June 81.8°F 57.1°F 3.92 in 82.3°F 58.2°F 3.52 in
July 89.6°F 63.1°F 2.62 in 87.4°F 63.2°F 3.17 in
August 87.3°F 61.0°F 2.42 in 85.5°F 60.3°F 2.57 in
September 79.5°F 52.0°F 2.15 in 78.3°F 50.2°F 2.21 in
October 64.7°F 38.4°F 1.82 in 64.7°F 36.7°F 1.85 in
November 49.5°F 25.7°F 0.81 in 50.8°F 24.3°F 0.59 in
December 37.0°F 16.0°F 0.69 in 40.0°F 16.8°F 0.37 in

Cities that consider Winner their climate twin

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