Climate twins of Creal Springs, IL

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

Top match: Thayer, MO

Month Creal Springs Thayer
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 43.3°F 25.5°F 3.84 in 46.8°F 22.8°F 3.56 in
February 48.7°F 29.0°F 3.64 in 51.5°F 26.5°F 3.48 in
March 58.6°F 36.9°F 4.66 in 60.8°F 35.3°F 4.62 in
April 69.7°F 46.2°F 4.96 in 70.7°F 44.0°F 5.21 in
May 77.2°F 55.6°F 5.19 in 78.2°F 54.0°F 5.31 in
June 85.2°F 62.9°F 4.08 in 86.2°F 62.7°F 3.34 in
July 88.3°F 66.5°F 4.39 in 90.3°F 66.4°F 3.95 in
August 87.4°F 64.8°F 3.65 in 89.6°F 64.8°F 3.49 in
September 82.0°F 57.5°F 3.79 in 82.4°F 56.7°F 3.64 in
October 71.2°F 46.3°F 3.84 in 72.3°F 44.2°F 3.77 in
November 57.0°F 37.2°F 4.30 in 60.0°F 34.1°F 4.59 in
December 46.3°F 29.2°F 4.16 in 49.8°F 26.5°F 3.79 in

Cities that consider Creal Springs their climate twin

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