Climate twins of Hawkins, WI

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

Top match: Pine City, MN

Month Hawkins Pine City
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 22.0°F 3.9°F 1.07 in 19.4°F -0.9°F 0.95 in
February 27.0°F 6.8°F 1.03 in 25.3°F 3.3°F 0.90 in
March 39.6°F 18.8°F 1.68 in 37.5°F 15.7°F 1.64 in
April 53.7°F 31.4°F 3.34 in 52.2°F 28.4°F 2.77 in
May 67.0°F 42.8°F 3.91 in 65.4°F 39.9°F 3.81 in
June 74.8°F 52.2°F 5.03 in 74.6°F 50.3°F 4.64 in
July 78.6°F 55.9°F 3.84 in 79.4°F 54.9°F 4.07 in
August 76.6°F 53.8°F 4.21 in 77.3°F 52.4°F 4.26 in
September 68.6°F 46.5°F 4.08 in 69.4°F 44.0°F 3.61 in
October 55.2°F 35.6°F 3.21 in 54.6°F 32.1°F 3.45 in
November 39.1°F 23.6°F 2.01 in 38.7°F 20.9°F 1.61 in
December 26.9°F 11.5°F 1.34 in 25.6°F 8.5°F 1.30 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 →