Climate twins of Grenora, ND

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

Top match: Opheim, MT

Month Grenora Opheim
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 19.5°F -2.2°F 0.37 in 21.6°F 0.8°F 0.27 in
February 23.5°F 2.1°F 0.34 in 25.7°F 3.9°F 0.37 in
March 35.7°F 14.2°F 0.55 in 38.1°F 14.9°F 0.43 in
April 52.6°F 27.3°F 0.98 in 53.8°F 26.2°F 0.91 in
May 65.3°F 39.5°F 2.17 in 65.4°F 36.1°F 2.09 in
June 73.1°F 49.9°F 3.14 in 73.1°F 45.7°F 3.70 in
July 79.9°F 54.6°F 2.49 in 81.1°F 50.3°F 2.25 in
August 80.0°F 51.8°F 1.64 in 81.3°F 48.6°F 1.57 in
September 69.6°F 41.1°F 1.26 in 70.4°F 38.8°F 1.39 in
October 53.5°F 28.6°F 0.97 in 54.3°F 27.8°F 0.82 in
November 36.1°F 14.6°F 0.52 in 37.1°F 15.3°F 0.36 in
December 23.7°F 3.8°F 0.48 in 24.8°F 4.1°F 0.27 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 →