Climate twins of Knapp, WI

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

Top match: Nicollet, MN

Month Knapp Nicollet
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 24.0°F 4.5°F 0.94 in 23.0°F 3.6°F 0.84 in
February 29.4°F 7.3°F 1.08 in 27.4°F 6.6°F 0.92 in
March 41.9°F 19.3°F 1.97 in 39.9°F 20.3°F 1.83 in
April 56.4°F 32.3°F 2.96 in 55.7°F 33.1°F 3.09 in
May 68.2°F 44.4°F 4.53 in 68.2°F 46.0°F 4.54 in
June 77.9°F 54.8°F 5.14 in 78.1°F 56.8°F 5.07 in
July 82.0°F 59.2°F 4.02 in 81.4°F 60.5°F 3.91 in
August 79.9°F 56.7°F 4.02 in 79.3°F 58.4°F 4.13 in
September 72.2°F 48.2°F 3.63 in 72.9°F 49.5°F 3.24 in
October 58.9°F 36.0°F 2.74 in 58.9°F 36.3°F 2.59 in
November 42.7°F 23.6°F 1.82 in 42.3°F 23.2°F 1.57 in
December 29.2°F 12.0°F 1.34 in 28.2°F 11.5°F 1.11 in

Cities that consider Knapp their climate twin

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