Climate twins of Babbitt, MN

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

Top match: Mizpah, MN

Month Babbitt Mizpah
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 15.5°F -7.4°F 1.21 in 16.9°F -4.9°F 0.77 in
February 20.9°F -4.8°F 0.85 in 23.0°F -2.4°F 0.64 in
March 34.4°F 9.7°F 1.04 in 35.0°F 9.7°F 1.20 in
April 48.0°F 24.7°F 2.42 in 49.5°F 26.2°F 1.82 in
May 62.3°F 38.5°F 3.93 in 62.8°F 39.3°F 3.01 in
June 72.1°F 49.2°F 3.76 in 72.1°F 51.1°F 4.23 in
July 77.0°F 53.3°F 4.35 in 77.1°F 54.7°F 3.84 in
August 74.8°F 50.8°F 3.56 in 75.8°F 52.3°F 3.20 in
September 65.3°F 41.7°F 3.27 in 67.0°F 44.7°F 3.10 in
October 49.9°F 30.7°F 2.66 in 52.4°F 34.1°F 2.68 in
November 33.7°F 17.8°F 1.64 in 34.7°F 19.3°F 1.36 in
December 20.5°F 2.2°F 1.14 in 21.8°F 3.8°F 1.03 in

Cities that consider Babbitt their climate twin

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