Climate twins of Crawfordsville, IA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Crawfordsville'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: Crawfordsville vs its climate twin
Top match: Cromwell, IA
| Month | Crawfordsville | Cromwell | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 30.2°F | 11.5°F | 1.25 in | 30.5°F | 10.6°F | 1.04 in |
| February | 35.0°F | 15.3°F | 1.56 in | 35.1°F | 13.8°F | 1.46 in |
| March | 48.3°F | 26.5°F | 2.32 in | 48.7°F | 25.5°F | 2.53 in |
| April | 62.0°F | 37.5°F | 3.65 in | 61.2°F | 36.1°F | 3.74 in |
| May | 72.2°F | 49.7°F | 5.11 in | 71.3°F | 48.8°F | 5.15 in |
| June | 81.4°F | 59.8°F | 5.17 in | 80.9°F | 59.4°F | 5.17 in |
| July | 85.0°F | 63.1°F | 4.13 in | 84.7°F | 63.2°F | 4.46 in |
| August | 83.3°F | 60.7°F | 4.18 in | 83.0°F | 60.7°F | 4.23 in |
| September | 77.3°F | 51.4°F | 3.60 in | 76.4°F | 51.6°F | 3.70 in |
| October | 64.2°F | 39.9°F | 3.03 in | 64.1°F | 39.3°F | 2.79 in |
| November | 48.7°F | 27.7°F | 2.23 in | 48.4°F | 26.2°F | 2.14 in |
| December | 35.6°F | 17.9°F | 1.71 in | 35.7°F | 16.0°F | 1.48 in |
Cities that consider Crawfordsville their climate twin
These US cities have Crawfordsville in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Crawfordsville would feel familiar.
- Mount Ayr, IA (ranks Crawfordsville #2)
- Benton, IA (ranks Crawfordsville #2)
- Diagonal, IA (ranks Crawfordsville #2)
- Ohio, IL (ranks Crawfordsville #2)
- Prescott, IA (ranks Crawfordsville #2)
- Lenox, IA (ranks Crawfordsville #2)
- Fontanelle, IA (ranks Crawfordsville #2)
- Greenfield, IA (ranks Crawfordsville #2)
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 →