Climate twins of Caledonia, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Caledonia'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: Caledonia vs its climate twin
Top match: Lehigh, IA
| Month | Caledonia | Lehigh | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 24.4°F | 7.7°F | 1.12 in | 26.2°F | 6.9°F | 0.87 in |
| February | 29.0°F | 11.3°F | 1.16 in | 30.8°F | 10.9°F | 1.34 in |
| March | 41.3°F | 22.9°F | 2.00 in | 44.1°F | 23.3°F | 2.05 in |
| April | 55.7°F | 35.0°F | 3.96 in | 58.9°F | 33.9°F | 3.72 in |
| May | 67.8°F | 47.4°F | 4.84 in | 70.0°F | 46.7°F | 5.27 in |
| June | 77.3°F | 58.0°F | 6.06 in | 79.5°F | 57.2°F | 5.76 in |
| July | 81.2°F | 61.7°F | 4.31 in | 82.8°F | 60.8°F | 4.41 in |
| August | 79.1°F | 59.3°F | 4.47 in | 80.5°F | 58.0°F | 4.75 in |
| September | 72.1°F | 50.7°F | 4.04 in | 74.8°F | 48.9°F | 3.36 in |
| October | 58.7°F | 38.6°F | 2.96 in | 61.9°F | 36.5°F | 2.65 in |
| November | 42.7°F | 26.4°F | 1.80 in | 45.4°F | 24.1°F | 1.70 in |
| December | 29.8°F | 14.8°F | 1.60 in | 31.7°F | 13.3°F | 1.36 in |
Cities that consider Caledonia their climate twin
These US cities have Caledonia in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Caledonia would feel familiar.
- Conger, MN (ranks Caledonia #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 →