Climate twins of Naplate, IL

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

Top match: Stanwood, IA

Month Naplate Stanwood
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.7°F 15.2°F 1.78 in 28.7°F 11.9°F 1.41 in
February 35.1°F 18.9°F 1.54 in 33.1°F 16.2°F 1.45 in
March 47.6°F 29.0°F 2.29 in 46.8°F 27.6°F 2.14 in
April 61.2°F 39.4°F 3.53 in 60.7°F 38.2°F 3.79 in
May 71.7°F 50.9°F 4.48 in 71.9°F 50.6°F 4.74 in
June 79.9°F 60.5°F 4.40 in 81.5°F 61.0°F 4.74 in
July 82.9°F 64.4°F 3.63 in 83.7°F 63.9°F 4.08 in
August 81.6°F 62.3°F 3.72 in 82.1°F 61.1°F 3.83 in
September 76.4°F 54.2°F 3.23 in 76.8°F 52.9°F 3.46 in
October 64.0°F 42.6°F 3.10 in 63.9°F 40.6°F 3.11 in
November 48.5°F 31.5°F 2.50 in 47.8°F 29.2°F 2.19 in
December 35.9°F 21.1°F 1.99 in 34.0°F 18.5°F 1.55 in

Cities that consider Naplate their climate twin

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