Climate twins of East Bethel, MN

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

Top match: Necedah, WI

Month East Bethel Necedah
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 22.8°F 5.6°F 0.87 in 26.2°F 6.0°F 1.15 in
February 28.0°F 9.6°F 1.00 in 31.5°F 9.4°F 1.03 in
March 41.0°F 21.5°F 1.83 in 44.2°F 19.9°F 1.76 in
April 56.4°F 34.5°F 3.32 in 58.7°F 31.4°F 3.22 in
May 69.3°F 46.9°F 4.26 in 70.9°F 43.6°F 3.92 in
June 77.0°F 55.9°F 4.62 in 79.6°F 53.2°F 5.13 in
July 80.1°F 61.6°F 4.79 in 83.6°F 57.5°F 4.47 in
August 78.3°F 59.1°F 4.07 in 81.1°F 55.7°F 3.97 in
September 71.2°F 51.4°F 3.08 in 73.6°F 47.6°F 3.32 in
October 57.2°F 38.6°F 3.10 in 60.1°F 35.8°F 2.73 in
November 40.7°F 25.0°F 1.92 in 43.6°F 23.8°F 1.87 in
December 27.4°F 13.0°F 1.52 in 30.9°F 12.4°F 1.51 in

Cities that consider East Bethel their climate twin

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