Climate twins of Shullsburg, WI

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

Top match: Big Bend, WI

Month Shullsburg Big Bend
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 27.3°F 8.4°F 1.31 in 27.7°F 11.6°F 1.60 in
February 31.8°F 11.5°F 1.43 in 31.5°F 14.6°F 1.71 in
March 44.3°F 22.9°F 2.02 in 43.0°F 24.0°F 1.93 in
April 57.7°F 34.7°F 3.89 in 55.3°F 34.8°F 3.65 in
May 69.4°F 46.1°F 4.18 in 67.3°F 45.8°F 3.97 in
June 78.9°F 56.7°F 5.29 in 77.4°F 55.6°F 4.88 in
July 82.2°F 59.7°F 4.22 in 81.4°F 60.3°F 3.99 in
August 80.5°F 57.5°F 4.36 in 79.8°F 58.9°F 4.18 in
September 73.8°F 48.4°F 4.10 in 72.9°F 51.1°F 3.27 in
October 60.9°F 37.2°F 2.80 in 60.0°F 39.8°F 2.92 in
November 45.5°F 25.8°F 2.35 in 45.0°F 28.3°F 2.15 in
December 32.6°F 15.0°F 1.69 in 33.0°F 18.1°F 1.70 in

Cities that consider Shullsburg their climate twin

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