Climate twins of Beach, ND

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

Top match: Edgemont, SD

Month	Beach			Edgemont
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	27.3°F	6.2°F	0.53 in	33.6°F	4.3°F	0.37 in
February	31.0°F	10.4°F	0.50 in	38.4°F	7.8°F	0.48 in
March	43.1°F	20.3°F	0.79 in	50.3°F	18.0°F	0.95 in
April	56.3°F	29.7°F	1.70 in	59.3°F	27.4°F	1.84 in
May	67.4°F	40.5°F	2.36 in	68.7°F	37.9°F	2.65 in
June	76.5°F	50.5°F	2.50 in	80.1°F	47.9°F	2.64 in
July	84.6°F	55.6°F	2.47 in	88.8°F	54.8°F	2.21 in
August	85.0°F	53.9°F	1.56 in	87.3°F	52.1°F	1.50 in
September	73.9°F	44.9°F	1.81 in	77.6°F	41.5°F	1.21 in
October	56.5°F	32.3°F	1.27 in	61.8°F	27.3°F	1.26 in
November	40.9°F	20.3°F	0.49 in	46.9°F	14.8°F	0.56 in
December	30.2°F	10.4°F	0.52 in	34.8°F	5.4°F	0.44 in

Cities that consider Beach their climate twin

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

Flasher, ND (ranks Beach #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 →