Climate twins of Dante, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Dante'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: Dante vs its climate twin
Top match: Wood Lake, NE
| Month | Dante | Wood Lake | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 32.1°F | 12.8°F | 0.67 in | 36.9°F | 15.2°F | 0.42 in |
| February | 37.3°F | 15.7°F | 0.97 in | 40.1°F | 17.6°F | 0.63 in |
| March | 48.9°F | 26.2°F | 1.44 in | 51.4°F | 26.4°F | 1.20 in |
| April | 61.5°F | 36.4°F | 3.06 in | 61.2°F | 35.5°F | 2.64 in |
| May | 73.0°F | 48.6°F | 3.75 in | 71.4°F | 46.8°F | 3.80 in |
| June | 82.9°F | 59.1°F | 3.79 in | 81.4°F | 57.2°F | 3.77 in |
| July | 88.2°F | 64.4°F | 2.63 in | 87.8°F | 62.9°F | 3.05 in |
| August | 85.7°F | 62.0°F | 3.00 in | 85.6°F | 60.9°F | 2.81 in |
| September | 78.1°F | 53.0°F | 2.95 in | 78.4°F | 52.1°F | 2.56 in |
| October | 63.1°F | 39.5°F | 2.38 in | 64.4°F | 39.1°F | 1.73 in |
| November | 47.6°F | 26.7°F | 0.90 in | 49.6°F | 27.0°F | 0.63 in |
| December | 34.5°F | 16.8°F | 0.78 in | 38.3°F | 18.0°F | 0.57 in |
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 →