Climate twins of Ellsworth, WI

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

Top match: Curtiss, WI

Month Ellsworth Curtiss
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 21.3°F 2.4°F 1.01 in 21.1°F 1.8°F 1.06 in
February 26.6°F 6.1°F 1.00 in 25.7°F 4.4°F 1.15 in
March 39.2°F 18.6°F 1.99 in 38.0°F 17.3°F 1.81 in
April 54.2°F 30.8°F 2.99 in 52.4°F 30.8°F 2.98 in
May 66.4°F 43.1°F 4.51 in 65.9°F 43.1°F 3.99 in
June 75.6°F 53.4°F 5.25 in 75.0°F 53.1°F 4.77 in
July 79.5°F 57.3°F 4.11 in 78.9°F 56.4°F 3.81 in
August 77.5°F 55.0°F 5.04 in 77.1°F 54.3°F 4.42 in
September 70.6°F 47.3°F 3.87 in 69.1°F 46.4°F 3.95 in
October 57.0°F 34.6°F 2.84 in 55.3°F 34.2°F 2.93 in
November 40.4°F 21.8°F 1.97 in 39.8°F 22.8°F 1.85 in
December 26.6°F 10.0°F 1.36 in 26.9°F 10.2°F 1.51 in

Cities that consider Ellsworth their climate twin

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