Climate twins of St. Croix Falls, WI
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches St. Croix 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: St. Croix Falls vs its climate twin
Top match: Storden, MN
| Month | St. Croix Falls | Storden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 23.0°F | 2.7°F | 0.61 in | 22.6°F | 5.0°F | 0.54 in |
| February | 28.2°F | 5.0°F | 0.80 in | 27.2°F | 8.8°F | 0.66 in |
| March | 40.8°F | 18.7°F | 1.30 in | 39.4°F | 21.2°F | 1.50 in |
| April | 55.3°F | 33.0°F | 2.66 in | 55.0°F | 33.0°F | 2.92 in |
| May | 68.3°F | 45.5°F | 4.10 in | 68.4°F | 46.5°F | 3.97 in |
| June | 77.8°F | 56.2°F | 4.07 in | 78.7°F | 57.9°F | 4.59 in |
| July | 82.0°F | 60.6°F | 4.23 in | 82.2°F | 61.0°F | 3.79 in |
| August | 79.9°F | 58.9°F | 3.69 in | 79.6°F | 58.0°F | 3.55 in |
| September | 72.4°F | 50.4°F | 3.58 in | 73.4°F | 49.1°F | 3.46 in |
| October | 58.1°F | 37.6°F | 2.90 in | 59.0°F | 35.8°F | 2.26 in |
| November | 41.6°F | 24.6°F | 1.40 in | 41.9°F | 23.0°F | 1.27 in |
| December | 28.3°F | 11.4°F | 1.14 in | 27.9°F | 11.3°F | 0.82 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 →