Climate twins of Oakdale, WI

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

Top match: Hartford, WI

Month Oakdale Hartford
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 25.1°F 7.6°F 1.30 in 25.9°F 8.5°F 1.52 in
February 29.9°F 10.9°F 1.31 in 29.9°F 11.4°F 1.26 in
March 42.2°F 22.9°F 2.06 in 41.3°F 21.7°F 1.78 in
April 56.0°F 35.2°F 3.41 in 54.3°F 33.2°F 3.43 in
May 68.5°F 47.2°F 4.02 in 66.7°F 44.3°F 3.82 in
June 76.8°F 56.6°F 4.43 in 76.6°F 54.4°F 4.77 in
July 80.9°F 60.0°F 3.91 in 80.2°F 58.2°F 3.89 in
August 78.5°F 57.7°F 4.46 in 78.6°F 56.2°F 3.74 in
September 71.2°F 49.1°F 3.39 in 71.8°F 48.4°F 3.23 in
October 58.0°F 38.0°F 2.67 in 58.7°F 37.1°F 2.91 in
November 42.9°F 26.4°F 1.85 in 43.8°F 25.9°F 2.06 in
December 30.2°F 14.9°F 1.65 in 31.3°F 15.4°F 1.68 in

Cities that consider Oakdale their climate twin

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