Climate twins of Melstone, MT
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Melstone'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: Melstone vs its climate twin
Top match: Camp Crook, SD
| Month | Melstone | Camp Crook | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 34.8°F | 14.4°F | 0.51 in | 33.5°F | 10.5°F | 0.31 in |
| February | 38.0°F | 16.7°F | 0.44 in | 36.5°F | 12.8°F | 0.45 in |
| March | 48.7°F | 24.6°F | 0.77 in | 47.7°F | 21.7°F | 0.70 in |
| April | 58.6°F | 33.3°F | 1.80 in | 58.3°F | 31.2°F | 1.61 in |
| May | 67.8°F | 42.4°F | 2.92 in | 68.6°F | 41.5°F | 2.87 in |
| June | 77.6°F | 51.2°F | 2.77 in | 78.8°F | 51.2°F | 2.91 in |
| July | 87.6°F | 57.5°F | 1.54 in | 88.4°F | 57.3°F | 2.06 in |
| August | 86.8°F | 55.5°F | 1.10 in | 87.5°F | 54.7°F | 1.60 in |
| September | 75.5°F | 46.0°F | 1.18 in | 77.8°F | 44.6°F | 1.19 in |
| October | 59.9°F | 34.8°F | 1.32 in | 61.1°F | 32.9°F | 1.27 in |
| November | 45.8°F | 24.5°F | 0.59 in | 46.2°F | 21.7°F | 0.48 in |
| December | 35.7°F | 16.2°F | 0.53 in | 35.5°F | 13.3°F | 0.34 in |
Cities that consider Melstone their climate twin
These US cities have Melstone in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Melstone would feel familiar.
- Camp Crook, SD (ranks Melstone #3)
- Glendo, WY (ranks Melstone #3)
- Gillette, WY (ranks Melstone #3)
- Lingle, WY (ranks Melstone #3)
- Oelrichs, SD (ranks Melstone #3)
- Geraldine, MT (ranks Melstone #2)
- New Underwood, SD (ranks Melstone #2)
- Box Elder, SD (ranks Melstone #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 →