Climate twins of Humboldt, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Humboldt'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: Humboldt vs its climate twin
Top match: Minnewaukan, ND
| Month | Humboldt | Minnewaukan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 12.7°F | -4.8°F | 0.53 in | 16.1°F | -1.5°F | 0.44 in |
| February | 17.9°F | -1.6°F | 0.39 in | 20.8°F | 1.8°F | 0.33 in |
| March | 31.4°F | 12.9°F | 0.77 in | 32.7°F | 14.0°F | 0.74 in |
| April | 50.0°F | 28.9°F | 1.07 in | 50.4°F | 28.0°F | 1.32 in |
| May | 64.9°F | 41.7°F | 3.23 in | 64.8°F | 41.4°F | 3.06 in |
| June | 74.7°F | 53.1°F | 4.06 in | 73.9°F | 53.5°F | 3.62 in |
| July | 78.9°F | 57.0°F | 3.32 in | 79.3°F | 57.7°F | 3.03 in |
| August | 78.1°F | 53.9°F | 2.56 in | 79.1°F | 54.7°F | 2.03 in |
| September | 68.6°F | 44.9°F | 2.78 in | 69.8°F | 45.2°F | 2.02 in |
| October | 52.0°F | 32.3°F | 1.83 in | 53.7°F | 31.9°F | 1.40 in |
| November | 33.6°F | 18.0°F | 0.91 in | 35.4°F | 18.3°F | 1.00 in |
| December | 19.5°F | 3.6°F | 0.64 in | 21.8°F | 5.3°F | 0.67 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 →