Climate twins of Fort Ransom, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Fort Ransom'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: Fort Ransom vs its climate twin
Top match: Bismarck, ND
| Month | Fort Ransom | Bismarck | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 18.5°F | -0.3°F | 0.71 in | 22.1°F | 3.8°F | 0.54 in |
| February | 23.7°F | 3.4°F | 0.89 in | 27.1°F | 6.7°F | 0.52 in |
| March | 37.1°F | 16.2°F | 0.96 in | 39.7°F | 17.8°F | 0.92 in |
| April | 53.5°F | 29.1°F | 1.52 in | 53.8°F | 29.4°F | 1.63 in |
| May | 67.4°F | 42.5°F | 3.11 in | 66.4°F | 42.5°F | 2.56 in |
| June | 77.1°F | 53.8°F | 3.40 in | 75.6°F | 52.5°F | 3.32 in |
| July | 82.0°F | 58.4°F | 2.90 in | 81.5°F | 58.3°F | 3.18 in |
| August | 80.6°F | 55.4°F | 2.65 in | 80.1°F | 55.6°F | 2.70 in |
| September | 72.1°F | 45.7°F | 2.40 in | 71.3°F | 46.1°F | 1.92 in |
| October | 56.1°F | 32.2°F | 2.20 in | 55.6°F | 33.5°F | 1.58 in |
| November | 38.7°F | 19.1°F | 0.78 in | 39.6°F | 19.8°F | 0.74 in |
| December | 24.6°F | 7.2°F | 0.75 in | 26.9°F | 9.5°F | 0.74 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 →