Climate twins of Camp Crook, SD

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Camp Crook'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.

Rank 1 closest
Cottonwood, SD
similarity distance: 0.545 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Hay Springs, NE
similarity distance: 0.629 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Melstone, MT
similarity distance: 0.691 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Camp Crook vs its climate twin

Top match: Cottonwood, SD

Month Camp Crook Cottonwood
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 33.5°F 10.5°F 0.31 in 33.1°F 8.1°F 0.41 in
February 36.5°F 12.8°F 0.45 in 37.0°F 10.5°F 0.56 in
March 47.7°F 21.7°F 0.70 in 47.6°F 20.4°F 1.03 in
April 58.3°F 31.2°F 1.61 in 57.8°F 30.0°F 1.96 in
May 68.6°F 41.5°F 2.87 in 68.3°F 42.0°F 2.90 in
June 78.8°F 51.2°F 2.91 in 79.4°F 52.7°F 3.09 in
July 88.4°F 57.3°F 2.06 in 88.2°F 59.2°F 2.10 in
August 87.5°F 54.7°F 1.60 in 87.6°F 55.8°F 1.63 in
September 77.8°F 44.6°F 1.19 in 78.2°F 45.0°F 1.22 in
October 61.1°F 32.9°F 1.27 in 61.8°F 31.3°F 1.46 in
November 46.2°F 21.7°F 0.48 in 47.1°F 19.2°F 0.54 in
December 35.5°F 13.3°F 0.34 in 35.7°F 10.2°F 0.48 in

Cities that consider Camp Crook their climate twin

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