Climate twins of Grace City, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Grace City'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: Grace City vs its climate twin
Top match: Fisher, MN
| Month | Grace City | Fisher | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 16.6°F | -1.3°F | 0.55 in | 15.8°F | -3.6°F | 0.51 in |
| February | 21.4°F | 2.6°F | 0.48 in | 20.4°F | -0.2°F | 0.53 in |
| March | 34.4°F | 15.7°F | 0.83 in | 34.0°F | 14.8°F | 0.73 in |
| April | 52.0°F | 29.7°F | 1.20 in | 51.3°F | 30.1°F | 1.27 in |
| May | 66.5°F | 42.4°F | 2.73 in | 66.6°F | 42.8°F | 2.75 in |
| June | 75.7°F | 53.5°F | 3.55 in | 76.0°F | 54.3°F | 4.15 in |
| July | 80.8°F | 57.8°F | 3.64 in | 80.3°F | 57.8°F | 3.27 in |
| August | 79.8°F | 55.6°F | 2.55 in | 79.6°F | 55.2°F | 2.97 in |
| September | 70.7°F | 46.4°F | 2.11 in | 70.4°F | 46.0°F | 2.60 in |
| October | 54.3°F | 32.9°F | 1.81 in | 54.1°F | 33.3°F | 2.09 in |
| November | 36.3°F | 18.8°F | 0.88 in | 36.2°F | 18.8°F | 0.82 in |
| December | 21.9°F | 5.8°F | 0.81 in | 22.4°F | 5.2°F | 0.74 in |
Cities that consider Grace City their climate twin
These US cities have Grace City in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Grace City would feel familiar.
- Fisher, MN (ranks Grace City #1)
- Crookston, MN (ranks Grace City #2)
- Lancaster, MN (ranks Grace City #1)
- Halma, MN (ranks Grace City #2)
- Lake Bronson, MN (ranks Grace City #2)
- Karlstad, MN (ranks Grace City #2)
- Strandquist, MN (ranks Grace City #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 →