Climate twins of McIntosh, SD
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches McIntosh'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: McIntosh vs its climate twin
Top match: Sidney, MT
| Month | McIntosh | Sidney | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 26.0°F | 7.1°F | 0.41 in | 27.2°F | 6.5°F | 0.45 in |
| February | 30.2°F | 11.0°F | 0.52 in | 32.0°F | 10.6°F | 0.37 in |
| March | 43.2°F | 21.3°F | 0.67 in | 45.8°F | 21.0°F | 0.58 in |
| April | 57.1°F | 32.2°F | 1.37 in | 60.5°F | 31.8°F | 1.17 in |
| May | 68.8°F | 43.4°F | 2.44 in | 71.3°F | 42.7°F | 2.40 in |
| June | 78.7°F | 53.1°F | 3.48 in | 79.1°F | 52.3°F | 2.78 in |
| July | 86.0°F | 58.4°F | 2.68 in | 86.6°F | 57.3°F | 2.65 in |
| August | 85.1°F | 57.0°F | 1.93 in | 86.4°F | 55.1°F | 1.30 in |
| September | 75.3°F | 47.7°F | 1.45 in | 75.8°F | 45.5°F | 1.62 in |
| October | 58.5°F | 34.7°F | 1.46 in | 59.4°F | 33.6°F | 1.08 in |
| November | 41.9°F | 21.3°F | 0.47 in | 41.9°F | 21.2°F | 0.59 in |
| December | 29.8°F | 11.1°F | 0.42 in | 30.6°F | 10.7°F | 0.51 in |
Cities that consider McIntosh their climate twin
These US cities have McIntosh in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, McIntosh would feel familiar.
- Fairview, MT (ranks McIntosh #1)
- Sidney, MT (ranks McIntosh #1)
- Burlington, ND (ranks McIntosh #3)
- Minot, ND (ranks McIntosh #3)
- Surrey, ND (ranks McIntosh #3)
- Wolf Point, MT (ranks McIntosh #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 →