Climate twins of Calumet Park, IL

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

Top match: Havana, IL

Month Calumet Park Havana
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 32.8°F 19.5°F 2.30 in 33.5°F 16.4°F 2.20 in
February 36.8°F 22.9°F 2.12 in 38.8°F 20.4°F 2.18 in
March 47.9°F 32.0°F 2.66 in 51.2°F 30.2°F 2.72 in
April 60.0°F 41.7°F 4.15 in 63.8°F 40.9°F 4.22 in
May 71.5°F 52.4°F 4.75 in 74.5°F 52.8°F 5.08 in
June 81.2°F 62.7°F 4.53 in 84.6°F 61.6°F 4.73 in
July 85.2°F 68.1°F 4.02 in 88.1°F 65.1°F 4.18 in
August 83.1°F 66.9°F 4.10 in 86.0°F 62.9°F 4.02 in
September 76.5°F 59.2°F 3.33 in 80.4°F 53.5°F 3.26 in
October 63.7°F 46.8°F 3.86 in 67.8°F 42.0°F 3.37 in
November 49.6°F 35.2°F 2.73 in 52.4°F 31.8°F 2.73 in
December 37.7°F 25.3°F 2.33 in 39.1°F 21.8°F 2.35 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 →