Climate twins of Sadorus, IL

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

Top match: Perry, IL

Month Sadorus Perry
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.1°F 17.9°F 2.07 in 36.5°F 17.8°F 1.96 in
February 38.9°F 21.7°F 1.80 in 41.6°F 21.7°F 2.00 in
March 51.5°F 31.1°F 2.57 in 52.8°F 31.3°F 2.57 in
April 64.7°F 40.9°F 3.68 in 65.0°F 41.8°F 3.92 in
May 75.5°F 52.4°F 4.39 in 74.9°F 53.3°F 4.41 in
June 83.5°F 61.7°F 4.35 in 83.8°F 62.2°F 4.75 in
July 85.0°F 64.4°F 3.87 in 87.3°F 65.1°F 4.48 in
August 83.5°F 62.1°F 3.12 in 86.1°F 62.7°F 3.21 in
September 79.4°F 54.5°F 3.05 in 79.9°F 54.2°F 3.59 in
October 66.9°F 43.1°F 3.03 in 67.5°F 42.7°F 3.10 in
November 51.5°F 32.2°F 2.90 in 53.3°F 32.8°F 2.82 in
December 39.1°F 23.6°F 2.14 in 41.2°F 23.2°F 2.26 in

Cities that consider Sadorus their climate twin

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