Climate twins of Carpio, ND

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

Top match: Culbertson, MT

Month Carpio Culbertson
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 20.7°F 2.4°F 0.49 in 24.4°F 2.1°F 0.36 in
February 25.1°F 5.4°F 0.52 in 29.8°F 6.9°F 0.31 in
March 37.8°F 17.7°F 0.69 in 43.5°F 18.4°F 0.49 in
April 54.1°F 30.1°F 1.15 in 59.4°F 29.9°F 0.94 in
May 67.8°F 42.6°F 2.46 in 70.7°F 40.4°F 2.25 in
June 76.9°F 53.4°F 3.45 in 79.0°F 50.2°F 2.88 in
July 83.6°F 57.4°F 2.76 in 86.5°F 55.7°F 2.73 in
August 83.8°F 56.1°F 1.79 in 86.5°F 53.5°F 1.40 in
September 72.6°F 46.1°F 1.67 in 75.7°F 43.5°F 1.33 in
October 55.1°F 33.7°F 1.27 in 58.9°F 31.1°F 0.91 in
November 38.2°F 19.6°F 0.74 in 40.5°F 17.5°F 0.49 in
December 24.8°F 7.8°F 0.65 in 27.9°F 6.5°F 0.43 in

Cities that consider Carpio their climate twin

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