Climate twins of Browning, MT

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

Top match: Thayne, WY

Month Browning Thayne
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.4°F 13.1°F 3.09 in 28.3°F 6.4°F 2.52 in
February 30.5°F 13.0°F 2.56 in 32.8°F 7.5°F 2.54 in
March 37.1°F 18.9°F 2.55 in 41.7°F 15.6°F 2.25 in
April 45.6°F 26.5°F 2.21 in 49.5°F 23.4°F 2.28 in
May 55.6°F 34.3°F 2.89 in 60.6°F 32.4°F 3.08 in
June 64.1°F 41.3°F 4.00 in 70.5°F 37.1°F 2.22 in
July 73.8°F 46.0°F 1.54 in 80.3°F 42.8°F 1.09 in
August 74.0°F 44.4°F 1.46 in 79.3°F 41.3°F 1.26 in
September 63.3°F 37.7°F 2.17 in 70.3°F 34.4°F 1.70 in
October 49.9°F 29.4°F 2.55 in 55.8°F 25.9°F 2.10 in
November 36.3°F 21.8°F 2.78 in 40.0°F 16.1°F 2.13 in
December 29.3°F 14.6°F 2.63 in 28.3°F 6.7°F 2.10 in

Cities that consider Browning their climate twin

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