Climate twins of Winnebago, NE

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

Top match: Bartlett, NE

Month Winnebago Bartlett
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.0°F 10.6°F 0.74 in 34.5°F 12.4°F 0.76 in
February 35.0°F 14.3°F 0.97 in 38.4°F 15.8°F 0.66 in
March 48.1°F 25.0°F 1.66 in 50.6°F 25.0°F 1.35 in
April 61.3°F 36.0°F 3.23 in 61.6°F 34.7°F 2.94 in
May 72.8°F 49.0°F 4.05 in 72.2°F 45.9°F 3.97 in
June 82.9°F 59.9°F 4.50 in 82.8°F 57.7°F 4.04 in
July 87.0°F 63.9°F 3.41 in 87.8°F 62.6°F 3.44 in
August 84.4°F 61.0°F 3.64 in 85.2°F 60.7°F 3.39 in
September 78.2°F 51.6°F 2.96 in 77.9°F 51.0°F 2.40 in
October 64.0°F 38.4°F 2.26 in 64.8°F 37.5°F 2.43 in
November 47.5°F 25.3°F 1.38 in 49.7°F 25.4°F 0.97 in
December 33.7°F 15.1°F 1.01 in 37.4°F 16.3°F 0.83 in

Cities that consider Winnebago their climate twin

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