Climate twins of Quincy, IL

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

Top match: Henry, IL

Month Quincy Henry
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 35.1°F 18.9°F 1.66 in 33.8°F 18.0°F 2.07 in
February 40.4°F 22.7°F 1.91 in 38.3°F 21.5°F 2.06 in
March 51.8°F 32.0°F 2.48 in 51.4°F 31.3°F 2.65 in
April 64.4°F 42.9°F 4.22 in 64.5°F 41.4°F 4.00 in
May 74.1°F 54.2°F 4.80 in 75.0°F 51.7°F 4.76 in
June 83.4°F 63.9°F 4.12 in 84.4°F 61.2°F 4.29 in
July 87.2°F 67.6°F 3.64 in 87.0°F 65.1°F 3.97 in
August 85.6°F 65.7°F 3.33 in 85.6°F 63.0°F 3.33 in
September 78.9°F 57.1°F 3.37 in 79.6°F 55.1°F 3.30 in
October 66.6°F 45.4°F 2.65 in 66.6°F 43.5°F 3.16 in
November 52.5°F 33.8°F 2.57 in 51.2°F 32.6°F 2.63 in
December 40.2°F 24.5°F 1.73 in 38.3°F 23.2°F 2.17 in

Cities that consider Quincy their climate twin

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