Climate twins of Keensburg, IL

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

Top match: Bancroft, KY

Month Keensburg Bancroft
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 40.2°F 25.0°F 3.58 in 42.9°F 27.1°F 3.28 in
February 45.2°F 27.3°F 3.09 in 47.5°F 29.8°F 3.27 in
March 54.9°F 35.8°F 4.06 in 57.0°F 37.8°F 4.37 in
April 66.9°F 46.4°F 5.08 in 68.6°F 47.5°F 4.69 in
May 76.0°F 57.3°F 5.83 in 77.1°F 57.4°F 5.16 in
June 84.8°F 65.8°F 4.70 in 84.8°F 65.9°F 4.68 in
July 87.4°F 69.0°F 4.47 in 87.9°F 69.3°F 4.56 in
August 86.2°F 66.8°F 3.24 in 87.1°F 68.1°F 3.53 in
September 81.0°F 58.9°F 3.51 in 80.9°F 59.9°F 3.61 in
October 69.3°F 46.8°F 3.79 in 69.3°F 48.2°F 3.65 in
November 55.2°F 36.4°F 3.93 in 56.6°F 37.8°F 3.44 in
December 43.9°F 28.3°F 3.45 in 46.4°F 31.2°F 3.88 in

Cities that consider Keensburg their climate twin

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