Climate twins of Nashotah, WI

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

Top match: Maquoketa, IA

Month Nashotah Maquoketa
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 28.1°F 11.1°F 1.65 in 26.7°F 11.4°F 1.32 in
February 32.0°F 14.0°F 1.61 in 31.2°F 15.1°F 1.65 in
March 43.7°F 24.6°F 2.10 in 44.5°F 26.4°F 2.22 in
April 56.4°F 35.8°F 3.86 in 58.6°F 37.0°F 3.44 in
May 68.6°F 47.2°F 4.14 in 70.3°F 49.3°F 4.21 in
June 78.4°F 57.0°F 4.86 in 79.4°F 59.8°F 5.09 in
July 82.3°F 61.2°F 4.12 in 82.2°F 62.9°F 4.15 in
August 80.6°F 59.7°F 4.17 in 80.6°F 60.6°F 4.18 in
September 73.8°F 51.6°F 3.39 in 74.8°F 51.6°F 3.64 in
October 60.8°F 39.8°F 2.83 in 61.7°F 39.8°F 2.93 in
November 46.0°F 28.6°F 2.21 in 46.1°F 28.3°F 2.08 in
December 33.7°F 18.0°F 1.87 in 32.5°F 18.0°F 1.78 in

Cities that consider Nashotah their climate twin

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