Climate twins of Hillsview, SD

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

Top match: New Rockford, ND

Month	Hillsview			New Rockford
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	20.5°F	1.8°F	0.36 in	18.3°F	-1.5°F	0.53 in
February	25.0°F	5.6°F	0.52 in	23.1°F	2.1°F	0.42 in
March	38.3°F	17.5°F	0.82 in	35.8°F	15.3°F	0.75 in
April	54.3°F	29.6°F	1.64 in	53.2°F	28.7°F	1.25 in
May	66.7°F	42.2°F	3.18 in	67.2°F	41.9°F	2.76 in
June	76.1°F	52.8°F	3.78 in	76.4°F	53.3°F	3.78 in
July	82.1°F	57.8°F	3.10 in	81.7°F	57.3°F	3.60 in
August	81.0°F	55.6°F	2.24 in	80.7°F	54.4°F	2.33 in
September	71.9°F	45.9°F	1.79 in	71.8°F	45.3°F	1.97 in
October	55.5°F	31.9°F	1.74 in	55.2°F	31.9°F	1.90 in
November	38.6°F	18.6°F	0.54 in	37.1°F	17.9°F	0.67 in
December	25.4°F	7.8°F	0.54 in	22.8°F	5.0°F	0.81 in

Cities that consider Hillsview their climate twin

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

Benedict, ND (ranks Hillsview #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 →