Climate twins of Reedsburg, WI

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

Top match: Jesup, IA

Month Reedsburg Jesup
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 27.0°F 7.9°F 1.51 in 26.5°F 8.0°F 0.95 in
February 31.9°F 11.5°F 1.54 in 30.8°F 11.7°F 1.36 in
March 44.0°F 23.4°F 2.20 in 44.2°F 23.9°F 2.02 in
April 57.3°F 34.7°F 3.84 in 59.0°F 35.5°F 3.59 in
May 69.4°F 46.5°F 4.29 in 70.8°F 47.8°F 4.60 in
June 78.5°F 56.7°F 5.40 in 80.5°F 59.2°F 5.66 in
July 82.2°F 60.9°F 5.27 in 83.0°F 61.8°F 4.61 in
August 80.2°F 58.2°F 4.74 in 81.4°F 59.4°F 4.27 in
September 72.8°F 49.8°F 3.55 in 74.9°F 50.9°F 3.53 in
October 60.0°F 37.6°F 3.07 in 61.7°F 38.3°F 3.03 in
November 45.1°F 26.9°F 2.17 in 45.9°F 25.6°F 2.09 in
December 32.8°F 15.2°F 1.99 in 32.0°F 14.6°F 1.66 in

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 →