Climate twins of Karlstad, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Karlstad'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: Karlstad vs its climate twin
Top match: McHenry, ND
| Month | Karlstad | McHenry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 15.5°F | -4.6°F | 0.68 in | 16.6°F | -1.3°F | 0.55 in |
| February | 20.9°F | -1.8°F | 0.59 in | 21.4°F | 2.6°F | 0.48 in |
| March | 35.0°F | 12.8°F | 0.87 in | 34.4°F | 15.7°F | 0.83 in |
| April | 52.7°F | 28.2°F | 1.15 in | 52.0°F | 29.7°F | 1.20 in |
| May | 67.6°F | 40.2°F | 3.02 in | 66.5°F | 42.4°F | 2.73 in |
| June | 77.1°F | 51.7°F | 3.96 in | 75.7°F | 53.5°F | 3.55 in |
| July | 81.7°F | 55.2°F | 3.04 in | 80.8°F | 57.8°F | 3.64 in |
| August | 81.2°F | 52.6°F | 3.02 in | 79.8°F | 55.6°F | 2.55 in |
| September | 71.7°F | 44.2°F | 2.69 in | 70.7°F | 46.4°F | 2.11 in |
| October | 55.1°F | 31.9°F | 2.03 in | 54.3°F | 32.9°F | 1.81 in |
| November | 36.2°F | 17.6°F | 0.97 in | 36.3°F | 18.8°F | 0.88 in |
| December | 22.0°F | 4.0°F | 0.85 in | 21.9°F | 5.8°F | 0.81 in |
Cities that consider Karlstad their climate twin
These US cities have Karlstad in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Karlstad would feel familiar.
- Glenfield, ND (ranks Karlstad #2)
- McHenry, ND (ranks Karlstad #2)
- Elliott, ND (ranks Karlstad #3)
- Fort Ransom, ND (ranks Karlstad #2)
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 →