Climate twins of Burlington, WI

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

Top match: Fairgrove, MI

Month Burlington Fairgrove
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 27.7°F 11.5°F 1.82 in 29.4°F 14.6°F 2.18 in
February 31.4°F 14.0°F 1.76 in 31.5°F 14.8°F 1.63 in
March 42.7°F 23.4°F 2.08 in 41.7°F 23.1°F 1.92 in
April 55.7°F 33.7°F 3.59 in 55.3°F 33.5°F 3.59 in
May 67.1°F 44.4°F 3.96 in 68.0°F 44.8°F 3.69 in
June 76.9°F 54.7°F 4.51 in 78.1°F 54.6°F 3.58 in
July 81.0°F 59.3°F 3.59 in 81.9°F 59.6°F 3.48 in
August 79.5°F 57.7°F 3.55 in 79.9°F 57.4°F 3.32 in
September 72.9°F 49.5°F 3.46 in 72.9°F 50.1°F 3.21 in
October 60.0°F 38.6°F 2.75 in 59.8°F 39.6°F 3.11 in
November 45.2°F 27.6°F 2.38 in 46.1°F 30.5°F 2.47 in
December 32.9°F 17.9°F 1.88 in 34.6°F 22.1°F 2.12 in

Cities that consider Burlington their climate twin

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