Climate twins of Beaver Bay, MN

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

Top match: Eagle River, WI

Month Beaver Bay Eagle River
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 19.2°F 1.0°F 1.34 in 21.2°F 2.2°F 1.26 in
February 24.1°F 3.3°F 1.17 in 25.8°F 3.2°F 1.06 in
March 35.0°F 15.0°F 1.66 in 37.1°F 13.3°F 1.61 in
April 46.1°F 28.2°F 2.68 in 50.2°F 26.3°F 2.78 in
May 59.5°F 39.8°F 3.52 in 65.1°F 39.4°F 3.51 in
June 69.8°F 49.4°F 4.05 in 74.7°F 50.1°F 4.06 in
July 76.1°F 54.5°F 3.25 in 78.1°F 53.9°F 4.01 in
August 74.3°F 53.5°F 3.31 in 75.3°F 52.1°F 3.20 in
September 65.4°F 45.6°F 3.30 in 67.4°F 44.3°F 3.61 in
October 51.2°F 34.0°F 3.51 in 52.9°F 32.7°F 3.55 in
November 35.6°F 21.1°F 2.72 in 38.0°F 21.3°F 1.92 in
December 24.1°F 8.9°F 2.01 in 26.3°F 9.8°F 1.56 in

Cities that consider Beaver Bay their climate twin

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