Climate twins of Cottonwood, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Cottonwood'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: Cottonwood vs its climate twin
Top match: Harris, MN
| Month | Cottonwood | Harris | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 24.5°F | 3.6°F | 0.86 in | 21.9°F | 3.6°F | 0.74 in |
| February | 29.0°F | 7.5°F | 0.87 in | 27.1°F | 7.3°F | 0.72 in |
| March | 41.2°F | 19.5°F | 1.60 in | 40.4°F | 19.9°F | 1.38 in |
| April | 56.8°F | 32.2°F | 2.79 in | 56.0°F | 33.5°F | 2.71 in |
| May | 70.1°F | 46.1°F | 3.66 in | 68.8°F | 45.7°F | 3.59 in |
| June | 80.6°F | 57.2°F | 4.10 in | 77.4°F | 56.5°F | 4.20 in |
| July | 84.7°F | 61.0°F | 3.78 in | 81.8°F | 60.7°F | 4.22 in |
| August | 82.2°F | 58.6°F | 3.61 in | 79.8°F | 58.1°F | 3.63 in |
| September | 75.3°F | 49.5°F | 3.06 in | 71.5°F | 49.5°F | 3.07 in |
| October | 60.2°F | 36.0°F | 2.29 in | 57.7°F | 37.2°F | 2.80 in |
| November | 43.3°F | 22.5°F | 1.26 in | 41.1°F | 24.7°F | 1.61 in |
| December | 29.6°F | 10.1°F | 1.02 in | 26.9°F | 11.2°F | 0.99 in |
Cities that consider Cottonwood their climate twin
These US cities have Cottonwood in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Cottonwood would feel familiar.
- Carthage, SD (ranks Cottonwood #2)
- Artesian, SD (ranks Cottonwood #3)
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 →