Climate twins of Elm Grove, WI

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

Top match: Fennimore, WI

Month Elm Grove Fennimore
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 29.7°F 14.1°F 1.48 in 28.7°F 10.2°F 0.98 in
February 33.6°F 16.7°F 1.49 in 33.9°F 13.6°F 0.96 in
March 44.3°F 25.9°F 1.79 in 46.6°F 25.4°F 1.91 in
April 56.0°F 36.3°F 3.71 in 60.6°F 35.8°F 3.64 in
May 67.5°F 47.5°F 3.73 in 72.3°F 46.8°F 4.35 in
June 77.9°F 57.9°F 4.84 in 81.2°F 56.9°F 5.15 in
July 82.8°F 63.3°F 3.57 in 84.4°F 61.2°F 3.84 in
August 80.7°F 61.7°F 3.68 in 83.1°F 59.3°F 4.07 in
September 73.8°F 53.3°F 3.02 in 75.8°F 50.6°F 3.37 in
October 60.9°F 41.6°F 2.73 in 62.5°F 38.3°F 2.48 in
November 46.8°F 30.1°F 2.05 in 47.0°F 27.7°F 1.87 in
December 35.2°F 20.6°F 1.73 in 34.3°F 17.0°F 1.32 in

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 →