Climate twins of Gladstone, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Gladstone'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: Gladstone vs its climate twin
Top match: Saco, MT
| Month | Gladstone | Saco | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 25.9°F | 4.1°F | 0.30 in | 25.6°F | 1.5°F | 0.26 in |
| February | 29.9°F | 7.0°F | 0.34 in | 30.1°F | 5.5°F | 0.33 in |
| March | 42.1°F | 18.2°F | 0.61 in | 42.8°F | 17.4°F | 0.53 in |
| April | 55.7°F | 28.1°F | 1.33 in | 57.3°F | 29.1°F | 1.05 in |
| May | 67.8°F | 39.6°F | 2.41 in | 67.5°F | 39.9°F | 1.77 in |
| June | 76.4°F | 49.2°F | 3.19 in | 74.3°F | 50.4°F | 3.01 in |
| July | 83.7°F | 53.7°F | 2.34 in | 82.8°F | 55.2°F | 1.69 in |
| August | 84.1°F | 52.6°F | 1.89 in | 82.1°F | 53.1°F | 1.35 in |
| September | 73.5°F | 43.5°F | 1.73 in | 71.5°F | 42.3°F | 1.35 in |
| October | 56.6°F | 30.9°F | 1.22 in | 57.2°F | 29.7°F | 1.05 in |
| November | 41.2°F | 18.1°F | 0.56 in | 40.8°F | 16.6°F | 0.54 in |
| December | 29.6°F | 7.6°F | 0.29 in | 29.0°F | 5.9°F | 0.43 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 →