Climate twins of Evan, MN

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

Top match: Lennox, SD

Month Evan Lennox
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 22.7°F 4.2°F 0.67 in 25.3°F 5.8°F 0.56 in
February 27.5°F 8.4°F 0.76 in 30.6°F 10.5°F 0.75 in
March 39.5°F 20.9°F 1.58 in 43.7°F 22.0°F 1.31 in
April 55.7°F 32.9°F 3.14 in 57.8°F 34.3°F 2.88 in
May 69.4°F 45.9°F 4.26 in 69.8°F 46.7°F 4.08 in
June 79.2°F 57.0°F 4.58 in 79.8°F 58.2°F 4.66 in
July 82.3°F 60.1°F 3.98 in 83.3°F 61.8°F 3.55 in
August 79.7°F 57.3°F 3.53 in 80.2°F 59.0°F 2.99 in
September 73.9°F 48.4°F 2.91 in 73.6°F 50.3°F 2.90 in
October 59.8°F 35.9°F 1.99 in 60.0°F 36.4°F 2.21 in
November 42.3°F 23.0°F 1.36 in 43.5°F 23.0°F 1.15 in
December 28.2°F 11.0°F 0.79 in 29.4°F 11.3°F 0.77 in

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 →