Climate twins of Hope, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Hope'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: Hope vs its climate twin
Top match: Martin, ND
| Month | Hope | Martin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 14.1°F | -6.0°F | 0.51 in | 16.9°F | -1.8°F | 0.41 in |
| February | 18.7°F | -2.6°F | 0.46 in | 21.7°F | 1.8°F | 0.41 in |
| March | 32.2°F | 13.4°F | 0.84 in | 34.6°F | 15.1°F | 0.73 in |
| April | 50.5°F | 28.7°F | 0.94 in | 51.9°F | 28.9°F | 1.07 in |
| May | 65.4°F | 42.1°F | 3.15 in | 66.3°F | 42.0°F | 2.69 in |
| June | 75.3°F | 53.4°F | 3.58 in | 75.0°F | 52.9°F | 3.62 in |
| July | 80.5°F | 56.8°F | 3.30 in | 80.5°F | 56.9°F | 3.14 in |
| August | 79.3°F | 53.9°F | 2.51 in | 79.6°F | 53.7°F | 2.34 in |
| September | 69.6°F | 44.3°F | 2.73 in | 70.5°F | 44.5°F | 1.84 in |
| October | 53.4°F | 31.2°F | 1.58 in | 54.1°F | 30.8°F | 1.41 in |
| November | 34.6°F | 16.1°F | 0.71 in | 35.7°F | 16.4°F | 0.69 in |
| December | 20.2°F | 2.8°F | 0.57 in | 21.9°F | 4.4°F | 0.90 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 →