Climate twins of Wood, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Wood'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: Wood vs its climate twin
Top match: Chadron, NE
| Month | Wood | Chadron | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 33.9°F | 11.1°F | 0.43 in | 38.2°F | 12.5°F | 0.55 in |
| February | 37.5°F | 13.2°F | 0.64 in | 40.9°F | 14.5°F | 0.64 in |
| March | 48.0°F | 22.3°F | 1.21 in | 51.5°F | 23.0°F | 1.34 in |
| April | 58.0°F | 31.8°F | 2.42 in | 59.4°F | 30.9°F | 2.16 in |
| May | 68.8°F | 43.6°F | 3.36 in | 69.1°F | 41.9°F | 2.99 in |
| June | 79.4°F | 54.1°F | 3.50 in | 81.1°F | 51.7°F | 3.22 in |
| July | 87.5°F | 60.1°F | 2.42 in | 89.3°F | 58.6°F | 1.93 in |
| August | 86.2°F | 57.9°F | 1.94 in | 88.4°F | 56.1°F | 1.70 in |
| September | 77.7°F | 48.4°F | 1.82 in | 79.0°F | 45.7°F | 1.50 in |
| October | 62.3°F | 34.9°F | 1.55 in | 63.6°F | 32.8°F | 1.39 in |
| November | 48.0°F | 23.1°F | 0.69 in | 50.1°F | 21.5°F | 0.69 in |
| December | 36.6°F | 14.3°F | 0.51 in | 39.3°F | 13.1°F | 0.64 in |
Cities that consider Wood their climate twin
These US cities have Wood in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Wood would feel familiar.
- Chadron, NE (ranks Wood #1)
- Oelrichs, SD (ranks Wood #1)
- Hemingford, NE (ranks Wood #2)
- Gandy, NE (ranks Wood #3)
- Stapleton, NE (ranks Wood #3)
- Merna, NE (ranks Wood #1)
- Broken Bow, NE (ranks Wood #2)
- Rapid City, SD (ranks Wood #1)
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 →