Climate twins of Deer Creek, MN

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

Top match: McGrath, MN

Month Deer Creek McGrath
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 17.8°F -1.5°F 0.87 in 18.7°F -0.5°F 0.60 in
February 23.0°F 1.8°F 0.77 in 24.2°F 2.9°F 0.71 in
March 35.5°F 15.4°F 1.35 in 37.0°F 16.5°F 1.35 in
April 51.8°F 29.2°F 2.58 in 51.1°F 30.3°F 2.51 in
May 65.4°F 42.3°F 3.53 in 64.6°F 43.0°F 3.12 in
June 73.9°F 53.5°F 4.43 in 73.8°F 52.9°F 4.30 in
July 78.0°F 57.6°F 4.27 in 78.4°F 58.1°F 4.35 in
August 76.5°F 54.8°F 3.64 in 76.6°F 56.3°F 3.85 in
September 68.6°F 46.5°F 2.86 in 68.6°F 48.5°F 2.95 in
October 53.9°F 33.7°F 2.84 in 54.1°F 36.0°F 2.80 in
November 37.1°F 20.3°F 1.28 in 37.6°F 22.8°F 1.54 in
December 23.5°F 7.4°F 0.90 in 23.9°F 8.6°F 0.74 in

Cities that consider Deer Creek their climate twin

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