Climate twins of Watertown, WI
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Watertown'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: Watertown vs its climate twin
Top match: Earlville, IA
| Month | Watertown | Earlville | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 26.4°F | 10.5°F | 1.37 in | 26.1°F | 8.2°F | 1.14 in |
| February | 30.3°F | 13.3°F | 1.35 in | 30.6°F | 12.0°F | 1.35 in |
| March | 42.2°F | 24.0°F | 1.90 in | 43.7°F | 23.8°F | 2.10 in |
| April | 55.6°F | 35.1°F | 3.67 in | 57.8°F | 34.8°F | 3.82 in |
| May | 67.8°F | 46.9°F | 4.19 in | 69.6°F | 46.9°F | 4.49 in |
| June | 77.7°F | 57.1°F | 5.80 in | 79.1°F | 57.6°F | 6.02 in |
| July | 81.3°F | 61.1°F | 4.50 in | 82.1°F | 61.0°F | 4.79 in |
| August | 79.5°F | 59.0°F | 4.11 in | 80.4°F | 58.1°F | 4.13 in |
| September | 72.8°F | 50.8°F | 3.47 in | 74.1°F | 49.0°F | 3.84 in |
| October | 59.6°F | 39.5°F | 3.00 in | 61.0°F | 37.4°F | 3.11 in |
| November | 44.6°F | 27.9°F | 2.14 in | 45.1°F | 25.7°F | 2.20 in |
| December | 32.0°F | 17.3°F | 1.75 in | 32.0°F | 15.2°F | 1.58 in |
Cities that consider Watertown their climate twin
These US cities have Watertown in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Watertown would feel familiar.
- Masonville, IA (ranks Watertown #2)
- Manchester, IA (ranks Watertown #1)
- Earlville, IA (ranks Watertown #1)
- Delaware, IA (ranks Watertown #1)
- Delhi, IA (ranks Watertown #1)
- Greeley, IA (ranks Watertown #1)
- Bloomington, WI (ranks Watertown #1)
- Mount Hope, WI (ranks Watertown #1)
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 →