Climate twins of Horace, ND
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Horace'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: Horace vs its climate twin
Top match: Nimrod, MN
| Month | Horace | Nimrod | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 17.3°F | -2.1°F | 0.67 in | 18.1°F | -2.8°F | 0.43 in |
| February | 22.0°F | 1.2°F | 0.66 in | 23.8°F | 0.8°F | 0.40 in |
| March | 35.2°F | 16.4°F | 1.15 in | 36.9°F | 15.6°F | 1.00 in |
| April | 52.9°F | 30.4°F | 1.58 in | 52.6°F | 29.3°F | 1.72 in |
| May | 68.1°F | 44.0°F | 3.10 in | 66.5°F | 41.9°F | 3.09 in |
| June | 77.4°F | 55.1°F | 4.33 in | 75.7°F | 52.8°F | 4.08 in |
| July | 81.6°F | 59.5°F | 3.71 in | 80.2°F | 57.1°F | 3.93 in |
| August | 80.2°F | 57.1°F | 2.74 in | 78.6°F | 54.8°F | 2.78 in |
| September | 71.6°F | 47.3°F | 2.50 in | 69.2°F | 46.3°F | 2.70 in |
| October | 55.5°F | 34.0°F | 2.24 in | 53.6°F | 33.5°F | 2.40 in |
| November | 38.3°F | 19.9°F | 0.89 in | 36.4°F | 19.3°F | 0.81 in |
| December | 23.9°F | 6.6°F | 0.83 in | 23.1°F | 5.4°F | 0.52 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 →