Climate twins of Alexander, ND

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

Top match: Garrison, ND

Month	Alexander			Garrison
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	21.6°F	5.1°F	0.50 in	19.5°F	1.6°F	0.43 in
February	26.2°F	8.1°F	0.41 in	24.3°F	5.1°F	0.36 in
March	38.8°F	18.8°F	0.63 in	36.7°F	17.2°F	0.67 in
April	53.1°F	30.5°F	0.96 in	52.8°F	29.7°F	1.23 in
May	64.8°F	42.1°F	2.38 in	65.8°F	42.4°F	2.82 in
June	74.1°F	52.9°F	3.44 in	74.5°F	53.1°F	3.78 in
July	82.2°F	57.9°F	2.63 in	81.3°F	58.3°F	2.73 in
August	81.6°F	55.4°F	1.35 in	81.2°F	55.9°F	2.11 in
September	71.1°F	44.9°F	1.16 in	71.3°F	46.4°F	1.68 in
October	54.7°F	32.6°F	1.04 in	55.0°F	33.1°F	1.29 in
November	38.0°F	20.0°F	0.60 in	37.9°F	19.9°F	0.63 in
December	26.2°F	9.9°F	0.55 in	25.0°F	8.5°F	0.45 in

Cities that consider Alexander their climate twin

These US cities have Alexander in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Alexander would feel familiar.

Coleharbor, ND (ranks Alexander #3)
Underwood, ND (ranks Alexander #3)
Washburn, ND (ranks Alexander #3)

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 →