Climate twins of Chokio, MN

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

Top match: Lastrup, MN

Month Chokio Lastrup
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 22.8°F 2.8°F 0.75 in 23.9°F 3.5°F 0.76 in
February 27.5°F 6.9°F 0.83 in 28.9°F 7.1°F 0.66 in
March 39.9°F 20.1°F 1.33 in 42.5°F 20.3°F 1.27 in
April 56.3°F 34.0°F 2.30 in 57.8°F 32.8°F 2.26 in
May 70.3°F 47.1°F 3.05 in 71.1°F 45.2°F 3.34 in
June 79.2°F 58.0°F 3.78 in 80.2°F 55.1°F 4.34 in
July 82.8°F 62.2°F 4.19 in 84.7°F 60.2°F 3.73 in
August 80.4°F 59.8°F 3.23 in 82.4°F 57.7°F 3.25 in
September 73.5°F 51.2°F 2.65 in 74.5°F 49.6°F 2.96 in
October 58.5°F 37.8°F 2.30 in 58.9°F 37.4°F 2.45 in
November 41.8°F 23.2°F 1.17 in 41.7°F 23.2°F 1.26 in
December 28.0°F 9.8°F 0.87 in 27.9°F 10.4°F 0.90 in

Cities that consider Chokio their climate twin

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