Climate twins of Montello, WI
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Montello'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: Montello vs its climate twin
Top match: Stewartville, MN
| Month | Montello | Stewartville | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 26.2°F | 8.0°F | 1.36 in | 22.5°F | 7.0°F | 0.99 in |
| February | 31.0°F | 11.1°F | 1.28 in | 26.7°F | 10.7°F | 1.02 in |
| March | 42.6°F | 22.4°F | 1.91 in | 39.9°F | 23.4°F | 2.02 in |
| April | 55.9°F | 34.0°F | 3.71 in | 55.3°F | 35.1°F | 3.52 in |
| May | 68.5°F | 46.2°F | 4.44 in | 68.0°F | 47.1°F | 4.35 in |
| June | 77.6°F | 56.0°F | 4.97 in | 77.6°F | 57.5°F | 5.35 in |
| July | 81.5°F | 60.0°F | 4.36 in | 80.3°F | 60.8°F | 4.19 in |
| August | 79.6°F | 58.0°F | 4.14 in | 78.0°F | 58.3°F | 4.12 in |
| September | 72.3°F | 49.4°F | 3.49 in | 71.8°F | 50.4°F | 3.60 in |
| October | 59.3°F | 37.7°F | 2.85 in | 57.9°F | 38.0°F | 2.43 in |
| November | 44.3°F | 26.3°F | 2.10 in | 41.7°F | 25.6°F | 1.80 in |
| December | 31.5°F | 15.1°F | 1.66 in | 28.0°F | 13.6°F | 1.28 in |
Cities that consider Montello their climate twin
These US cities have Montello in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Montello would feel familiar.
- Center Point, IA (ranks Montello #2)
- Newhall, IA (ranks Montello #2)
- Shellsburg, IA (ranks Montello #2)
- Urbana, IA (ranks Montello #2)
- Medicine Lake, MN (ranks Montello #2)
- Golden Valley, MN (ranks Montello #2)
- Hopkins, MN (ranks Montello #2)
- New Hope, MN (ranks Montello #2)
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 →