Climate twins of Milton, ND

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

Top match: Willow City, ND

Month	Milton			Willow City
	High	Low	Precip	High	Low	Precip
January	12.5°F	-5.0°F	0.45 in	15.1°F	-5.6°F	0.46 in
February	17.1°F	-2.0°F	0.36 in	20.0°F	-2.1°F	0.50 in
March	29.8°F	12.0°F	0.59 in	33.1°F	11.2°F	0.77 in
April	48.0°F	27.6°F	1.14 in	51.8°F	25.5°F	1.11 in
May	63.5°F	40.4°F	3.13 in	65.7°F	37.4°F	2.61 in
June	71.9°F	51.6°F	4.17 in	74.5°F	48.9°F	3.82 in
July	76.6°F	55.8°F	3.44 in	80.0°F	53.3°F	2.81 in
August	76.5°F	53.8°F	2.45 in	80.1°F	50.2°F	2.43 in
September	67.3°F	44.0°F	2.11 in	70.1°F	40.3°F	1.69 in
October	50.9°F	30.6°F	1.52 in	53.6°F	28.1°F	1.32 in
November	32.3°F	15.7°F	0.75 in	34.9°F	14.3°F	0.79 in
December	18.2°F	2.2°F	0.64 in	20.9°F	1.5°F	0.64 in

Cities that consider Milton their climate twin

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

Willow City, ND (ranks Milton #3)

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 →