Climate twins of Miles City, MT

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

Top match: Buffalo, SD

Month Miles City Buffalo
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 30.1°F 8.9°F 0.28 in 31.6°F 10.7°F 0.31 in
February 34.7°F 12.5°F 0.26 in 33.8°F 12.9°F 0.41 in
March 46.8°F 22.5°F 0.55 in 44.9°F 22.1°F 0.53 in
April 58.1°F 32.9°F 1.54 in 55.6°F 31.3°F 1.44 in
May 68.1°F 42.9°F 2.73 in 66.3°F 41.9°F 2.47 in
June 78.6°F 52.5°F 2.51 in 77.0°F 51.6°F 2.11 in
July 88.7°F 59.6°F 1.51 in 86.1°F 58.1°F 2.16 in
August 87.4°F 57.6°F 0.91 in 85.0°F 55.9°F 1.13 in
September 75.6°F 46.9°F 1.07 in 74.9°F 46.3°F 1.13 in
October 59.0°F 33.8°F 0.97 in 58.1°F 33.7°F 1.09 in
November 44.3°F 21.2°F 0.33 in 44.3°F 21.5°F 0.32 in
December 33.1°F 11.7°F 0.22 in 33.9°F 13.3°F 0.35 in

Cities that consider Miles City their climate twin

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