Climate twins of Elizabeth, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Elizabeth'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: Elizabeth vs its climate twin
Top match: Monango, ND
| Month | Elizabeth | Monango | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 18.4°F | -0.4°F | 1.29 in | 22.2°F | 2.2°F | 0.62 in |
| February | 22.3°F | 3.2°F | 0.83 in | 27.6°F | 6.1°F | 0.66 in |
| March | 35.6°F | 18.1°F | 1.15 in | 40.2°F | 18.6°F | 1.17 in |
| April | 52.9°F | 31.8°F | 2.00 in | 55.2°F | 31.2°F | 1.78 in |
| May | 66.8°F | 45.0°F | 3.86 in | 68.2°F | 44.0°F | 3.54 in |
| June | 76.3°F | 56.3°F | 4.35 in | 77.4°F | 55.0°F | 4.07 in |
| July | 80.8°F | 60.7°F | 3.28 in | 82.0°F | 59.0°F | 3.62 in |
| August | 79.4°F | 57.1°F | 2.95 in | 80.5°F | 56.4°F | 2.62 in |
| September | 70.8°F | 48.9°F | 3.04 in | 71.5°F | 47.5°F | 2.49 in |
| October | 55.7°F | 35.1°F | 2.37 in | 56.2°F | 34.3°F | 2.05 in |
| November | 38.0°F | 21.4°F | 1.04 in | 38.7°F | 20.5°F | 0.77 in |
| December | 24.4°F | 7.9°F | 0.71 in | 26.0°F | 8.4°F | 0.86 in |
Cities that consider Elizabeth their climate twin
These US cities have Elizabeth in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Elizabeth would feel familiar.
- LaMoure, ND (ranks Elizabeth #2)
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 →