Climate twins of Windsor, IL

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

Top match: Pearl, IL

Month Windsor Pearl
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 34.6°F 19.2°F 2.64 in 35.4°F 18.4°F 2.06 in
February 39.6°F 22.8°F 1.97 in 40.5°F 21.9°F 2.05 in
March 50.9°F 31.9°F 3.11 in 51.7°F 31.5°F 2.91 in
April 63.9°F 41.9°F 4.51 in 64.1°F 41.9°F 4.41 in
May 73.7°F 53.1°F 4.57 in 73.9°F 53.2°F 4.81 in
June 82.1°F 61.6°F 4.76 in 82.5°F 62.3°F 4.67 in
July 85.0°F 64.7°F 3.91 in 85.6°F 65.7°F 3.87 in
August 83.7°F 62.5°F 2.95 in 84.4°F 63.6°F 3.35 in
September 78.4°F 55.2°F 2.97 in 78.9°F 55.1°F 2.99 in
October 66.3°F 44.3°F 3.60 in 66.8°F 43.4°F 3.02 in
November 51.0°F 33.2°F 3.75 in 52.3°F 32.6°F 3.11 in
December 39.2°F 24.7°F 2.45 in 40.5°F 23.7°F 2.33 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 →