Climate twins of East Gull Lake, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches East Gull 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: East Gull Lake vs its climate twin
Top match: Summit, SD
| Month | East Gull Lake | Summit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 17.8°F | -1.2°F | 0.63 in | 20.7°F | 2.1°F | 0.65 in |
| February | 23.8°F | 2.8°F | 0.60 in | 25.7°F | 6.1°F | 0.69 in |
| March | 36.5°F | 16.3°F | 1.24 in | 38.7°F | 18.4°F | 1.03 in |
| April | 51.0°F | 30.7°F | 2.38 in | 54.6°F | 30.3°F | 2.34 in |
| May | 65.2°F | 45.2°F | 3.41 in | 68.2°F | 42.8°F | 3.16 in |
| June | 74.6°F | 56.0°F | 4.11 in | 77.1°F | 53.5°F | 3.95 in |
| July | 78.9°F | 61.0°F | 4.36 in | 81.9°F | 58.1°F | 4.07 in |
| August | 76.8°F | 58.7°F | 3.31 in | 80.4°F | 56.3°F | 2.97 in |
| September | 67.6°F | 49.4°F | 2.66 in | 73.0°F | 47.9°F | 2.77 in |
| October | 53.2°F | 35.7°F | 2.63 in | 57.5°F | 34.4°F | 2.51 in |
| November | 37.3°F | 22.4°F | 1.03 in | 39.8°F | 20.7°F | 0.90 in |
| December | 23.6°F | 7.9°F | 0.74 in | 25.7°F | 8.6°F | 0.66 in |
Cities that consider East Gull Lake their climate twin
These US cities have East Gull Lake in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, East Gull Lake would feel familiar.
- Summit, SD (ranks East Gull Lake #3)
- Marvin, SD (ranks East Gull Lake #3)
- Ortley, SD (ranks East Gull Lake #3)
- New Effington, SD (ranks East Gull Lake #3)
- Great Bend, ND (ranks East Gull Lake #3)
- Rosholt, SD (ranks East Gull Lake #3)
- Hankinson, ND (ranks East Gull Lake #3)
- Stockholm, SD (ranks East Gull 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 →