Climate twins of Hingham, MT

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

Top match: Belgrade, MT

Month Hingham Belgrade
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 28.7°F 5.6°F 0.34 in 32.2°F 10.2°F 0.44 in
February 32.3°F 8.2°F 0.27 in 35.6°F 12.7°F 0.42 in
March 43.2°F 17.6°F 0.29 in 46.4°F 21.6°F 0.93 in
April 55.7°F 28.0°F 0.99 in 55.3°F 29.1°F 1.68 in
May 66.0°F 37.5°F 1.77 in 65.0°F 37.6°F 2.12 in
June 73.9°F 45.8°F 2.60 in 73.8°F 44.1°F 2.54 in
July 83.8°F 50.3°F 1.09 in 85.4°F 49.4°F 1.08 in
August 82.4°F 48.8°F 1.05 in 84.1°F 47.4°F 0.94 in
September 70.7°F 39.9°F 1.08 in 73.0°F 39.5°F 1.00 in
October 55.8°F 28.4°F 0.82 in 57.5°F 29.3°F 1.10 in
November 41.0°F 17.0°F 0.47 in 41.7°F 18.2°F 0.74 in
December 31.2°F 8.1°F 0.34 in 31.7°F 9.7°F 0.44 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 →