Climate twins of Oshkosh, NE

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

Top match: Hot Springs, SD

Month Oshkosh Hot Springs
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 39.7°F 12.5°F 0.25 in 40.4°F 14.1°F 0.41 in
February 43.2°F 15.4°F 0.38 in 43.3°F 15.4°F 0.57 in
March 53.4°F 23.9°F 0.93 in 54.1°F 23.6°F 1.05 in
April 61.1°F 32.4°F 2.00 in 61.6°F 31.2°F 2.12 in
May 70.3°F 43.6°F 3.02 in 70.2°F 41.4°F 3.28 in
June 82.1°F 54.1°F 2.98 in 80.6°F 50.8°F 3.05 in
July 88.3°F 60.4°F 2.75 in 88.5°F 57.4°F 2.41 in
August 86.4°F 57.8°F 1.93 in 87.4°F 55.2°F 2.00 in
September 78.7°F 47.7°F 1.52 in 79.7°F 45.4°F 1.40 in
October 64.4°F 33.5°F 1.33 in 64.7°F 33.3°F 1.40 in
November 51.4°F 21.6°F 0.46 in 50.5°F 22.7°F 0.43 in
December 40.6°F 13.0°F 0.36 in 40.5°F 14.8°F 0.49 in

Cities that consider Oshkosh their climate twin

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