Climate twins of Thorp, WI

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Thorp'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.

Rank 1 closest
Shawano, WI
similarity distance: 0.633 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Cecil, WI
similarity distance: 0.633 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Bonduel, WI
similarity distance: 0.633 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Thorp vs its climate twin

Top match: Shawano, WI

Month Thorp Shawano
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 22.3°F 3.3°F 0.91 in 24.1°F 6.2°F 1.30 in
February 27.3°F 6.7°F 1.04 in 28.4°F 8.5°F 1.07 in
March 39.8°F 19.5°F 1.66 in 40.3°F 19.6°F 1.82 in
April 54.3°F 32.4°F 2.99 in 54.1°F 32.0°F 3.03 in
May 67.0°F 44.9°F 3.74 in 67.3°F 44.2°F 3.80 in
June 76.4°F 54.9°F 4.30 in 76.8°F 54.3°F 4.34 in
July 80.1°F 59.0°F 3.76 in 81.2°F 58.1°F 3.89 in
August 78.6°F 56.6°F 4.25 in 79.1°F 56.3°F 3.60 in
September 70.7°F 48.1°F 3.77 in 71.5°F 47.9°F 3.63 in
October 57.0°F 36.1°F 2.83 in 57.5°F 36.2°F 3.03 in
November 41.1°F 24.6°F 1.94 in 42.2°F 25.2°F 2.05 in
December 27.8°F 11.6°F 1.29 in 29.4°F 13.6°F 1.58 in

Cities that consider Thorp their climate twin

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