Climate twins of Brownsville, MN

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

Top match: Nevada, IA

Month Brownsville Nevada
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 27.3°F 10.9°F 1.26 in 28.0°F 9.8°F 0.98 in
February 32.1°F 14.3°F 1.18 in 32.8°F 14.2°F 1.20 in
March 44.7°F 26.4°F 2.09 in 46.0°F 25.4°F 2.18 in
April 59.2°F 38.4°F 3.87 in 60.0°F 36.2°F 3.80 in
May 71.0°F 50.0°F 4.73 in 70.8°F 48.6°F 5.31 in
June 80.1°F 60.3°F 5.88 in 80.4°F 59.1°F 5.41 in
July 83.7°F 64.2°F 4.31 in 83.9°F 62.5°F 4.51 in
August 81.5°F 62.4°F 4.82 in 81.8°F 59.9°F 4.73 in
September 74.2°F 54.3°F 4.16 in 75.9°F 51.0°F 3.84 in
October 60.9°F 42.1°F 2.64 in 62.6°F 39.2°F 2.65 in
November 45.3°F 29.8°F 1.94 in 46.7°F 26.8°F 1.99 in
December 32.3°F 18.2°F 1.52 in 33.5°F 16.2°F 1.46 in

Cities that consider Brownsville their climate twin

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