Climate twins of Brookfield, WI

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

Top match: New Lisbon, WI

Month Brookfield New Lisbon
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 27.7°F 12.2°F 1.59 in 26.3°F 8.0°F 1.34 in
February 31.5°F 15.0°F 1.56 in 31.1°F 11.4°F 1.25 in
March 42.4°F 24.6°F 2.06 in 43.1°F 23.2°F 2.01 in
April 54.3°F 34.8°F 3.71 in 56.2°F 34.6°F 3.73 in
May 66.5°F 46.6°F 3.94 in 68.5°F 46.6°F 4.51 in
June 76.6°F 55.9°F 4.80 in 77.4°F 56.1°F 5.11 in
July 81.2°F 61.4°F 3.82 in 81.5°F 60.3°F 3.83 in
August 79.2°F 60.2°F 3.97 in 79.8°F 57.9°F 4.47 in
September 72.2°F 51.3°F 3.21 in 72.4°F 49.7°F 3.75 in
October 59.4°F 40.2°F 3.09 in 59.6°F 37.8°F 2.69 in
November 45.1°F 28.5°F 2.19 in 44.5°F 27.0°F 2.01 in
December 33.1°F 18.7°F 1.96 in 31.6°F 15.3°F 1.63 in

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 →