Climate twins of Hitterdal, MN

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

Top match: Brainerd, MN

Month Hitterdal Brainerd
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 17.2°F -3.6°F 0.82 in 19.6°F -2.0°F 0.80 in
February 22.7°F 0.2°F 0.66 in 25.4°F 0.9°F 0.78 in
March 35.5°F 15.4°F 0.96 in 38.4°F 14.8°F 1.47 in
April 52.0°F 29.1°F 2.03 in 53.0°F 28.8°F 2.54 in
May 66.4°F 42.4°F 3.73 in 66.6°F 42.8°F 3.93 in
June 75.5°F 53.1°F 4.90 in 75.8°F 53.3°F 4.64 in
July 79.2°F 57.5°F 4.35 in 80.1°F 57.8°F 4.37 in
August 77.7°F 55.3°F 3.26 in 78.4°F 55.0°F 3.59 in
September 69.5°F 46.3°F 3.55 in 69.9°F 46.2°F 3.00 in
October 53.1°F 33.5°F 2.84 in 55.2°F 33.8°F 2.98 in
November 36.7°F 19.2°F 1.37 in 38.3°F 20.8°F 1.49 in
December 22.4°F 5.6°F 0.98 in 24.8°F 7.4°F 1.04 in

Cities that consider Hitterdal their climate twin

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

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 →