Climate twins of Oakland City, IN

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

Top match: New Point, IN

Month Oakland City New Point
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 38.8°F 21.9°F 3.49 in 36.2°F 21.6°F 3.40 in
February 43.7°F 24.4°F 2.93 in 40.6°F 24.1°F 2.76 in
March 54.1°F 31.7°F 3.96 in 51.0°F 32.7°F 3.77 in
April 66.0°F 40.5°F 5.09 in 63.7°F 43.6°F 4.91 in
May 74.9°F 52.0°F 4.87 in 73.5°F 54.7°F 5.08 in
June 83.0°F 61.0°F 4.82 in 81.6°F 63.3°F 5.41 in
July 85.7°F 64.3°F 4.10 in 84.5°F 66.3°F 3.97 in
August 85.2°F 61.5°F 3.72 in 83.4°F 64.4°F 4.03 in
September 80.0°F 54.4°F 3.74 in 77.7°F 57.3°F 3.24 in
October 68.3°F 43.5°F 3.29 in 65.8°F 45.6°F 3.37 in
November 54.6°F 33.9°F 4.04 in 52.0°F 34.8°F 3.60 in
December 43.1°F 25.9°F 3.85 in 40.7°F 26.5°F 3.47 in

Cities that consider Oakland City their climate twin

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