Climate twins of East Grand Forks, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches East Grand Forks'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 Grand Forks vs its climate twin
Top match: New Rockford, ND
| Month | East Grand Forks | New Rockford | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 15.3°F | -1.3°F | 0.49 in | 18.3°F | -1.5°F | 0.53 in |
| February | 20.4°F | 2.5°F | 0.56 in | 23.1°F | 2.1°F | 0.42 in |
| March | 34.0°F | 16.7°F | 0.91 in | 35.8°F | 15.3°F | 0.75 in |
| April | 52.0°F | 31.0°F | 1.19 in | 53.2°F | 28.7°F | 1.25 in |
| May | 66.5°F | 43.5°F | 2.99 in | 67.2°F | 41.9°F | 2.76 in |
| June | 75.9°F | 54.8°F | 4.13 in | 76.4°F | 53.3°F | 3.78 in |
| July | 80.1°F | 58.8°F | 3.55 in | 81.7°F | 57.3°F | 3.60 in |
| August | 79.2°F | 56.5°F | 3.03 in | 80.7°F | 54.4°F | 2.33 in |
| September | 69.7°F | 47.4°F | 2.42 in | 71.8°F | 45.3°F | 1.97 in |
| October | 53.3°F | 34.5°F | 2.00 in | 55.2°F | 31.9°F | 1.90 in |
| November | 35.0°F | 19.6°F | 0.83 in | 37.1°F | 17.9°F | 0.67 in |
| December | 21.0°F | 5.8°F | 0.73 in | 22.8°F | 5.0°F | 0.81 in |
Cities that consider East Grand Forks their climate twin
These US cities have East Grand Forks in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, East Grand Forks would feel familiar.
- New Rockford, ND (ranks East Grand Forks #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 →