Climate twins of Bowman, ND

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

Top match: Center, ND

Month	Bowman			Center
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	26.3°F	6.5°F	0.56 in	22.9°F	4.6°F	0.51 in
February	29.9°F	8.8°F	0.62 in	26.8°F	8.9°F	0.51 in
March	40.8°F	18.3°F	0.80 in	39.2°F	19.6°F	0.85 in
April	52.9°F	28.5°F	1.56 in	53.9°F	32.8°F	1.41 in
May	64.0°F	39.9°F	2.72 in	65.8°F	43.3°F	2.78 in
June	74.2°F	50.0°F	3.10 in	75.1°F	53.3°F	3.46 in
July	82.7°F	55.8°F	2.13 in	81.6°F	57.8°F	2.77 in
August	82.4°F	53.5°F	1.41 in	81.0°F	55.7°F	2.01 in
September	72.1°F	43.3°F	1.59 in	70.8°F	46.4°F	2.08 in
October	55.6°F	30.5°F	1.56 in	54.7°F	33.5°F	1.40 in
November	40.7°F	18.7°F	0.53 in	38.4°F	19.5°F	0.66 in
December	29.8°F	9.7°F	0.50 in	26.4°F	9.4°F	0.51 in

Cities that consider Bowman their climate twin

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

Winifred, MT (ranks Bowman #1)

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 →