Climate twins of Brooklyn Center, MN

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

Top match: Battle Creek, IA

Month Brooklyn Center Battle Creek
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 23.9°F 7.2°F 0.61 in 27.4°F 7.8°F 0.74 in
February 28.9°F 10.8°F 0.62 in 32.0°F 11.7°F 0.87 in
March 41.6°F 23.4°F 1.42 in 45.2°F 23.4°F 1.78 in
April 56.6°F 35.2°F 2.88 in 59.5°F 34.7°F 3.42 in
May 69.5°F 47.1°F 4.34 in 70.9°F 48.1°F 4.40 in
June 79.0°F 57.9°F 4.37 in 80.7°F 58.7°F 4.80 in
July 83.3°F 62.5°F 4.19 in 83.9°F 62.3°F 3.71 in
August 81.1°F 60.5°F 4.14 in 81.9°F 59.0°F 4.23 in
September 73.0°F 51.7°F 3.16 in 75.9°F 49.5°F 3.16 in
October 58.3°F 38.3°F 2.61 in 62.6°F 35.8°F 2.37 in
November 42.1°F 25.5°F 1.47 in 45.9°F 23.6°F 1.48 in
December 28.8°F 13.4°F 0.90 in 32.5°F 13.2°F 1.12 in

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 →