Climate twins of Oakwood, IL

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

Top match: River Forest, IN

Month Oakwood River Forest
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.3°F 19.5°F 2.47 in 34.9°F 20.7°F 3.00 in
February 40.4°F 22.9°F 2.24 in 39.3°F 23.8°F 2.47 in
March 52.0°F 32.1°F 3.23 in 50.0°F 32.3°F 3.47 in
April 65.2°F 42.3°F 4.46 in 62.7°F 42.2°F 4.10 in
May 75.3°F 52.3°F 4.63 in 72.7°F 52.8°F 4.56 in
June 83.1°F 61.3°F 5.18 in 81.1°F 61.8°F 5.24 in
July 85.4°F 64.8°F 4.34 in 83.8°F 64.8°F 4.34 in
August 83.9°F 63.0°F 3.31 in 82.4°F 63.2°F 3.39 in
September 78.9°F 55.6°F 3.26 in 76.6°F 55.9°F 3.12 in
October 66.5°F 44.3°F 3.66 in 64.7°F 45.0°F 3.37 in
November 51.9°F 33.8°F 3.70 in 50.8°F 34.8°F 3.66 in
December 39.9°F 24.9°F 2.73 in 39.4°F 26.0°F 3.04 in

Cities that consider Oakwood their climate twin

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