Climate twins of Annawan, IL

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

Top match: Fairfield, IA

Month Annawan Fairfield
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.3°F 13.8°F 1.89 in 30.6°F 13.6°F 1.52 in
February 34.8°F 17.4°F 2.06 in 35.6°F 17.7°F 1.80 in
March 47.7°F 27.4°F 2.62 in 48.5°F 28.1°F 2.40 in
April 60.9°F 37.7°F 3.96 in 61.9°F 38.8°F 3.71 in
May 72.0°F 50.2°F 5.07 in 71.3°F 49.8°F 5.51 in
June 80.9°F 60.2°F 5.00 in 80.5°F 59.5°F 5.11 in
July 83.7°F 63.4°F 3.69 in 84.2°F 63.5°F 3.96 in
August 82.2°F 60.7°F 3.86 in 82.6°F 61.3°F 3.83 in
September 76.5°F 51.9°F 3.68 in 76.1°F 52.8°F 3.58 in
October 63.8°F 41.0°F 2.93 in 62.8°F 41.3°F 3.00 in
November 48.5°F 29.7°F 2.65 in 47.8°F 29.7°F 2.28 in
December 35.8°F 19.7°F 2.17 in 35.4°F 19.7°F 1.72 in

Cities that consider Annawan their climate twin

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