Climate twins of Dunseith, ND

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

Top match: Cavalier, ND

Month	Dunseith			Cavalier
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	17.9°F	-5.1°F	0.42 in	13.2°F	-4.3°F	0.34 in
February	22.1°F	-2.1°F	0.48 in	18.0°F	-1.0°F	0.34 in
March	33.8°F	11.8°F	0.80 in	30.7°F	13.4°F	0.71 in
April	50.4°F	26.3°F	0.92 in	49.3°F	28.5°F	1.11 in
May	64.0°F	39.5°F	2.85 in	64.5°F	40.9°F	2.87 in
June	72.9°F	50.3°F	4.04 in	73.6°F	52.7°F	3.77 in
July	79.1°F	55.4°F	2.77 in	77.5°F	56.6°F	3.44 in
August	78.8°F	52.8°F	2.58 in	77.4°F	53.5°F	2.25 in
September	68.6°F	42.6°F	1.74 in	68.2°F	44.7°F	2.31 in
October	52.8°F	29.8°F	2.25 in	51.8°F	32.3°F	1.66 in
November	35.0°F	15.5°F	0.84 in	33.6°F	17.3°F	0.72 in
December	21.5°F	2.4°F	0.45 in	19.5°F	3.3°F	0.50 in

Cities that consider Dunseith their climate twin

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

Milton, ND (ranks Dunseith #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 →