Climate twins of Butternut, WI
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Butternut'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: Butternut vs its climate twin
Top match: Pine City, MN
| Month | Butternut | Pine City | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 19.6°F | 1.1°F | 1.16 in | 19.4°F | -0.9°F | 0.95 in |
| February | 24.3°F | 2.9°F | 1.38 in | 25.3°F | 3.3°F | 0.90 in |
| March | 36.8°F | 14.0°F | 1.96 in | 37.5°F | 15.7°F | 1.64 in |
| April | 49.7°F | 27.5°F | 3.02 in | 52.2°F | 28.4°F | 2.77 in |
| May | 64.0°F | 39.9°F | 3.87 in | 65.4°F | 39.9°F | 3.81 in |
| June | 73.5°F | 49.9°F | 4.98 in | 74.6°F | 50.3°F | 4.64 in |
| July | 77.7°F | 53.8°F | 4.26 in | 79.4°F | 54.9°F | 4.07 in |
| August | 75.9°F | 51.7°F | 3.71 in | 77.3°F | 52.4°F | 4.26 in |
| September | 67.8°F | 44.3°F | 3.83 in | 69.4°F | 44.0°F | 3.61 in |
| October | 53.2°F | 33.2°F | 3.98 in | 54.6°F | 32.1°F | 3.45 in |
| November | 36.9°F | 21.8°F | 2.06 in | 38.7°F | 20.9°F | 1.61 in |
| December | 24.8°F | 9.5°F | 1.80 in | 25.6°F | 8.5°F | 1.30 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 →