Climate twins of Highland, WI
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Highland'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: Highland vs its climate twin
Top match: Osage, IA
| Month | Highland | Osage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 26.0°F | 8.9°F | 1.45 in | 23.2°F | 6.2°F | 1.17 in |
| February | 30.6°F | 12.1°F | 1.52 in | 27.9°F | 10.3°F | 1.25 in |
| March | 42.8°F | 23.0°F | 2.30 in | 40.9°F | 22.9°F | 1.91 in |
| April | 56.5°F | 33.9°F | 3.88 in | 56.1°F | 35.0°F | 4.01 in |
| May | 68.3°F | 45.5°F | 4.61 in | 68.2°F | 47.4°F | 5.19 in |
| June | 77.7°F | 55.9°F | 5.73 in | 78.0°F | 58.1°F | 5.57 in |
| July | 81.4°F | 60.1°F | 4.71 in | 81.4°F | 61.7°F | 4.97 in |
| August | 79.6°F | 58.2°F | 4.39 in | 79.1°F | 59.0°F | 3.95 in |
| September | 72.4°F | 49.4°F | 3.66 in | 73.0°F | 50.3°F | 3.51 in |
| October | 59.3°F | 37.6°F | 3.08 in | 59.6°F | 37.6°F | 2.73 in |
| November | 43.9°F | 26.0°F | 2.47 in | 42.7°F | 25.0°F | 1.84 in |
| December | 31.1°F | 15.6°F | 1.83 in | 29.2°F | 13.6°F | 1.51 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 →