Climate twins of Malta, MT

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Malta'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.

Rank 1 closest
Circle, MT
similarity distance: 0.793 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Terry, MT
similarity distance: 0.828 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Big Sandy, MT
similarity distance: 0.844 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Malta vs its climate twin

Top match: Circle, MT

Month Malta Circle
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 28.6°F 6.6°F 0.36 in 28.5°F 7.8°F 0.40 in
February 32.4°F 10.6°F 0.37 in 32.6°F 11.5°F 0.37 in
March 45.0°F 21.0°F 0.51 in 45.5°F 21.6°F 0.49 in
April 59.0°F 32.8°F 1.27 in 58.1°F 31.7°F 1.38 in
May 68.8°F 42.4°F 1.72 in 68.3°F 41.7°F 2.55 in
June 76.9°F 51.8°F 2.68 in 77.7°F 50.9°F 2.64 in
July 86.3°F 57.4°F 1.58 in 87.1°F 57.1°F 2.14 in
August 85.6°F 55.7°F 1.27 in 86.8°F 55.4°F 1.40 in
September 74.4°F 45.5°F 1.41 in 75.5°F 45.2°F 1.33 in
October 59.4°F 33.2°F 1.03 in 58.8°F 33.1°F 0.93 in
November 43.3°F 20.4°F 0.69 in 42.8°F 21.2°F 0.36 in
December 31.3°F 10.2°F 0.46 in 31.5°F 11.0°F 0.46 in

Cities that consider Malta their climate twin

These US cities have Malta in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Malta would feel familiar.

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 →