Climate twins of Marble, MN

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Marble'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: Marble vs its climate twin

Top match: Deer Creek, MN

Month Marble Deer Creek
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 18.9°F -1.5°F 0.97 in 17.8°F -1.5°F 0.87 in
February 25.7°F 2.1°F 0.85 in 23.0°F 1.8°F 0.77 in
March 38.8°F 15.4°F 1.33 in 35.5°F 15.4°F 1.35 in
April 52.6°F 28.0°F 2.10 in 51.8°F 29.2°F 2.58 in
May 66.1°F 40.2°F 3.23 in 65.4°F 42.3°F 3.53 in
June 75.2°F 50.5°F 4.70 in 73.9°F 53.5°F 4.43 in
July 79.7°F 55.4°F 4.14 in 78.0°F 57.6°F 4.27 in
August 77.8°F 53.2°F 3.40 in 76.5°F 54.8°F 3.64 in
September 68.1°F 44.7°F 3.05 in 68.6°F 46.5°F 2.86 in
October 52.8°F 33.3°F 2.79 in 53.9°F 33.7°F 2.84 in
November 36.1°F 20.1°F 1.59 in 37.1°F 20.3°F 1.28 in
December 23.1°F 6.5°F 1.23 in 23.5°F 7.4°F 0.90 in

Cities that consider Marble their climate twin

These US cities have Marble in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Marble 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 →