Climate twins of Foreston, MN

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

Top match: Chetek, WI

Month Foreston Chetek
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 20.4°F 0.5°F 0.77 in 21.6°F 1.7°F 0.89 in
February 26.0°F 3.7°F 0.85 in 27.2°F 4.8°F 0.82 in
March 38.4°F 16.7°F 1.43 in 39.6°F 18.1°F 1.47 in
April 53.2°F 30.3°F 2.74 in 54.3°F 31.6°F 2.77 in
May 66.4°F 42.9°F 3.82 in 67.8°F 44.7°F 3.85 in
June 75.6°F 53.8°F 4.31 in 77.3°F 54.7°F 4.17 in
July 80.1°F 58.6°F 4.39 in 81.4°F 58.8°F 3.98 in
August 78.0°F 55.8°F 3.97 in 79.5°F 56.3°F 4.21 in
September 70.4°F 46.4°F 3.19 in 71.4°F 47.8°F 3.34 in
October 55.9°F 34.0°F 2.82 in 56.8°F 35.3°F 3.03 in
November 39.1°F 21.0°F 1.41 in 40.4°F 22.9°F 1.68 in
December 26.0°F 9.0°F 1.11 in 27.1°F 10.0°F 1.22 in

Cities that consider Foreston their climate twin

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

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 →