Climate twins of Fairview, MT

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

Top match: McIntosh, SD

Month	Fairview			McIntosh
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	27.2°F	6.5°F	0.45 in	26.0°F	7.1°F	0.41 in
February	32.0°F	10.6°F	0.37 in	30.2°F	11.0°F	0.52 in
March	45.8°F	21.0°F	0.58 in	43.2°F	21.3°F	0.67 in
April	60.5°F	31.8°F	1.17 in	57.1°F	32.2°F	1.37 in
May	71.3°F	42.7°F	2.40 in	68.8°F	43.4°F	2.44 in
June	79.1°F	52.3°F	2.78 in	78.7°F	53.1°F	3.48 in
July	86.6°F	57.3°F	2.65 in	86.0°F	58.4°F	2.68 in
August	86.4°F	55.1°F	1.30 in	85.1°F	57.0°F	1.93 in
September	75.8°F	45.5°F	1.62 in	75.3°F	47.7°F	1.45 in
October	59.4°F	33.6°F	1.08 in	58.5°F	34.7°F	1.46 in
November	41.9°F	21.2°F	0.59 in	41.9°F	21.3°F	0.47 in
December	30.6°F	10.7°F	0.51 in	29.8°F	11.1°F	0.42 in

Cities that consider Fairview their climate twin

These US cities have Fairview in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Fairview would feel familiar.

McIntosh, SD (ranks Fairview #2)
Fort Peck, MT (ranks Fairview #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 →