Climate twins of River Falls, WI

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

Top match: Wyeville, WI

Month River Falls Wyeville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 22.0°F 4.3°F 0.90 in 24.2°F 5.4°F 1.14 in
February 27.1°F 7.6°F 0.85 in 29.1°F 8.1°F 1.03 in
March 40.1°F 19.6°F 1.67 in 41.1°F 19.8°F 1.89 in
April 55.2°F 31.6°F 3.08 in 54.9°F 32.0°F 3.55 in
May 67.6°F 43.4°F 4.29 in 67.6°F 44.3°F 4.28 in
June 77.1°F 53.8°F 5.03 in 77.0°F 54.4°F 5.24 in
July 81.5°F 58.3°F 4.39 in 81.1°F 58.0°F 4.22 in
August 79.1°F 56.3°F 4.68 in 79.1°F 55.8°F 4.34 in
September 71.4°F 49.0°F 3.56 in 71.3°F 47.3°F 3.35 in
October 57.2°F 36.2°F 2.95 in 57.9°F 36.1°F 2.78 in
November 40.8°F 23.8°F 1.58 in 42.6°F 24.5°F 1.91 in
December 27.4°F 11.9°F 1.08 in 29.7°F 12.8°F 1.51 in

Cities that consider River Falls their climate twin

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