Climate twins of Mizpah, MN

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

Top match: Hoyt Lakes, MN

Month Mizpah Hoyt Lakes
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 16.9°F -4.9°F 0.77 in 16.8°F -7.3°F 0.82 in
February 23.0°F -2.4°F 0.64 in 22.7°F -5.0°F 0.68 in
March 35.0°F 9.7°F 1.20 in 36.0°F 8.5°F 1.22 in
April 49.5°F 26.2°F 1.82 in 49.8°F 22.7°F 1.98 in
May 62.8°F 39.3°F 3.01 in 63.7°F 34.5°F 2.99 in
June 72.1°F 51.1°F 4.23 in 72.7°F 45.3°F 4.35 in
July 77.1°F 54.7°F 3.84 in 77.7°F 49.2°F 3.62 in
August 75.8°F 52.3°F 3.20 in 75.5°F 47.2°F 3.45 in
September 67.0°F 44.7°F 3.10 in 66.1°F 40.8°F 3.86 in
October 52.4°F 34.1°F 2.68 in 50.6°F 29.7°F 2.91 in
November 34.7°F 19.3°F 1.36 in 34.4°F 17.2°F 1.11 in
December 21.8°F 3.8°F 1.03 in 21.8°F 2.5°F 1.15 in

Cities that consider Mizpah their climate twin

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