Climate twins of Cook, MN

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Cook'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
Williams, MN
similarity distance: 0.912 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Clearbrook, MN
similarity distance: 0.922 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Bagley, MN
similarity distance: 0.922 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Cook vs its climate twin

Top match: Williams, MN

Month Cook Williams
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 15.3°F -4.9°F 1.10 in 14.2°F -6.5°F 0.79 in
February 21.2°F -2.2°F 0.72 in 20.1°F -3.2°F 0.69 in
March 34.6°F 11.1°F 1.06 in 34.0°F 11.1°F 0.88 in
April 48.1°F 26.3°F 1.78 in 49.1°F 25.8°F 1.46 in
May 62.7°F 40.4°F 2.73 in 63.2°F 38.9°F 2.93 in
June 72.4°F 50.9°F 3.99 in 72.5°F 50.2°F 3.99 in
July 77.1°F 55.6°F 4.50 in 77.6°F 53.5°F 3.52 in
August 75.3°F 53.8°F 3.47 in 75.9°F 51.5°F 3.45 in
September 65.2°F 45.7°F 3.25 in 66.0°F 44.0°F 3.06 in
October 50.1°F 33.9°F 2.46 in 50.3°F 31.0°F 2.31 in
November 33.9°F 20.4°F 1.56 in 33.3°F 16.2°F 1.14 in
December 20.7°F 4.5°F 1.04 in 19.8°F 1.7°F 0.86 in

Cities that consider Cook their climate twin

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