Climate twins of Devils Lake, ND

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

Top match: Westhope, ND

Month	Devils Lake			Westhope
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	16.2°F	-1.8°F	0.48 in	16.1°F	-1.9°F	0.54 in
February	20.9°F	1.5°F	0.38 in	21.2°F	2.2°F	0.50 in
March	33.2°F	15.0°F	0.64 in	34.6°F	15.3°F	0.87 in
April	51.1°F	31.0°F	0.96 in	54.5°F	29.4°F	1.12 in
May	65.0°F	44.1°F	2.47 in	68.3°F	41.6°F	2.63 in
June	74.2°F	54.9°F	3.76 in	76.6°F	52.6°F	3.83 in
July	79.4°F	59.3°F	3.82 in	81.8°F	56.5°F	2.64 in
August	78.8°F	57.2°F	2.43 in	81.8°F	54.4°F	2.37 in
September	69.0°F	48.5°F	1.96 in	72.5°F	45.2°F	1.43 in
October	52.8°F	34.4°F	1.51 in	54.6°F	31.6°F	1.47 in
November	34.8°F	18.2°F	0.75 in	34.7°F	17.2°F	0.72 in
December	21.8°F	4.7°F	0.82 in	20.7°F	4.1°F	0.63 in

Cities that consider Devils Lake their climate twin

These US cities have Devils Lake in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Devils Lake would feel familiar.

Landa, ND (ranks Devils Lake #2)
Westhope, ND (ranks Devils Lake #2)
Lancaster, MN (ranks Devils Lake #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 →