Climate twins of Melvina, WI

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

Top match: Brownsdale, MN

Month Melvina Brownsdale
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 25.9°F 8.1°F 1.18 in 21.9°F 5.4°F 1.12 in
February 30.6°F 11.1°F 1.00 in 26.4°F 9.1°F 1.10 in
March 41.8°F 21.3°F 1.84 in 39.2°F 22.7°F 2.03 in
April 55.8°F 33.5°F 3.82 in 54.9°F 35.2°F 3.67 in
May 67.6°F 45.1°F 4.67 in 67.5°F 47.5°F 4.99 in
June 77.2°F 55.2°F 5.41 in 77.6°F 58.2°F 5.07 in
July 80.2°F 59.0°F 4.39 in 80.8°F 61.2°F 4.85 in
August 78.6°F 56.9°F 4.41 in 78.7°F 58.7°F 4.07 in
September 72.0°F 48.3°F 3.84 in 72.2°F 50.0°F 3.60 in
October 58.5°F 36.4°F 2.73 in 58.3°F 37.5°F 2.63 in
November 43.7°F 26.1°F 1.88 in 41.5°F 24.7°F 1.84 in
December 31.1°F 14.7°F 1.50 in 27.9°F 13.0°F 1.25 in

Cities that consider Melvina their climate twin

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