Climate twins of Montevideo, MN

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

Top match: Princeton, MN

Month Montevideo Princeton
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 21.9°F 2.0°F 0.67 in 22.1°F 3.8°F 0.77 in
February 26.8°F 5.4°F 0.76 in 27.4°F 7.9°F 0.90 in
March 39.3°F 18.4°F 1.90 in 40.2°F 20.7°F 1.72 in
April 55.3°F 31.7°F 2.48 in 55.6°F 33.0°F 2.83 in
May 68.8°F 45.4°F 3.66 in 68.8°F 45.4°F 3.90 in
June 78.5°F 56.1°F 4.35 in 76.9°F 54.9°F 4.23 in
July 82.2°F 59.8°F 3.82 in 80.9°F 59.1°F 3.99 in
August 80.1°F 57.1°F 3.96 in 79.1°F 56.6°F 4.06 in
September 73.5°F 48.1°F 3.01 in 71.6°F 48.7°F 2.90 in
October 59.0°F 34.7°F 2.46 in 57.2°F 36.2°F 2.72 in
November 41.8°F 21.1°F 1.56 in 40.1°F 23.6°F 1.56 in
December 27.6°F 9.1°F 0.82 in 26.7°F 11.0°F 1.11 in

Cities that consider Montevideo their climate twin

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