Climate twins of Long Lake, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Long Lake'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: Long Lake vs its climate twin
Top match: Center, ND
| Month | Long Lake | Center | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 20.8°F | 3.5°F | 0.50 in | 22.9°F | 4.6°F | 0.51 in |
| February | 24.3°F | 6.5°F | 0.52 in | 26.8°F | 8.9°F | 0.51 in |
| March | 37.8°F | 17.8°F | 1.40 in | 39.2°F | 19.6°F | 0.85 in |
| April | 53.4°F | 30.8°F | 1.65 in | 53.9°F | 32.8°F | 1.41 in |
| May | 66.2°F | 42.7°F | 2.92 in | 65.8°F | 43.3°F | 2.78 in |
| June | 74.6°F | 53.3°F | 3.30 in | 75.1°F | 53.3°F | 3.46 in |
| July | 80.8°F | 58.3°F | 2.96 in | 81.6°F | 57.8°F | 2.77 in |
| August | 79.4°F | 56.3°F | 2.06 in | 81.0°F | 55.7°F | 2.01 in |
| September | 71.0°F | 47.1°F | 2.00 in | 70.8°F | 46.4°F | 2.08 in |
| October | 54.9°F | 33.3°F | 1.57 in | 54.7°F | 33.5°F | 1.40 in |
| November | 38.5°F | 20.2°F | 0.45 in | 38.4°F | 19.5°F | 0.66 in |
| December | 25.3°F | 9.2°F | 0.55 in | 26.4°F | 9.4°F | 0.51 in |
Cities that consider Long Lake their climate twin
These US cities have Long Lake in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Long Lake would feel familiar.
- Center, ND (ranks Long Lake #1)
- New Salem, ND (ranks Long Lake #2)
- Hebron, ND (ranks Long Lake #1)
- Glen Ullin, ND (ranks Long Lake #1)
- Flasher, ND (ranks Long Lake #1)
- Garrison, ND (ranks Long Lake #3)
- Killdeer, ND (ranks Long Lake #3)
- Dickinson, ND (ranks Long Lake #3)
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 →