Climate twins of Lake Park, IA
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Lake Park'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: Lake Park vs its climate twin
Top match: Hastings, MN
| Month | Lake Park | Hastings | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 24.1°F | 5.7°F | 0.82 in | 24.1°F | 5.7°F | 0.90 in |
| February | 28.5°F | 9.7°F | 0.84 in | 29.0°F | 8.7°F | 0.91 in |
| March | 41.6°F | 22.0°F | 1.67 in | 41.1°F | 21.8°F | 1.78 in |
| April | 57.1°F | 34.3°F | 3.37 in | 56.4°F | 35.7°F | 3.10 in |
| May | 70.0°F | 47.4°F | 4.59 in | 68.6°F | 47.8°F | 4.33 in |
| June | 81.1°F | 59.3°F | 5.04 in | 78.8°F | 58.6°F | 4.94 in |
| July | 85.2°F | 62.9°F | 3.81 in | 83.0°F | 63.3°F | 4.37 in |
| August | 82.5°F | 60.1°F | 3.50 in | 80.9°F | 61.3°F | 4.23 in |
| September | 75.6°F | 51.1°F | 2.91 in | 73.4°F | 53.1°F | 3.21 in |
| October | 60.8°F | 37.7°F | 2.39 in | 59.4°F | 40.0°F | 2.61 in |
| November | 43.4°F | 23.9°F | 1.49 in | 43.0°F | 26.6°F | 1.72 in |
| December | 29.2°F | 12.1°F | 0.98 in | 29.7°F | 13.7°F | 1.23 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 →