Climate twins of Elizabeth, IL

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

Top match: Greenfield, WI

Month Elizabeth Greenfield
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 28.0°F 10.4°F 1.43 in 29.8°F 12.2°F 1.80 in
February 32.8°F 14.3°F 1.74 in 33.3°F 14.6°F 1.87 in
March 45.5°F 25.4°F 2.33 in 44.1°F 23.9°F 2.07 in
April 58.8°F 35.8°F 3.85 in 56.0°F 34.5°F 4.10 in
May 70.2°F 47.1°F 4.29 in 68.1°F 45.5°F 4.28 in
June 79.8°F 57.7°F 5.82 in 77.7°F 55.9°F 5.63 in
July 83.3°F 61.2°F 4.65 in 82.8°F 60.5°F 3.75 in
August 81.4°F 58.8°F 4.02 in 81.1°F 59.2°F 3.79 in
September 74.6°F 50.0°F 3.85 in 74.2°F 51.3°F 3.77 in
October 62.1°F 38.9°F 3.04 in 61.5°F 39.7°F 3.01 in
November 46.6°F 27.8°F 2.44 in 46.5°F 28.5°F 2.28 in
December 33.6°F 16.9°F 1.89 in 35.0°F 18.3°F 2.09 in

Cities that consider Elizabeth their climate twin

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