Climate twins of Morton, MN
These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Morton'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: Morton vs its climate twin
Top match: Emery, SD
| Month | Morton | Emery | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | Low | Precip | High | Low | Precip | |
| January | 23.4°F | 5.7°F | 0.58 in | 26.2°F | 7.7°F | 0.59 in |
| February | 27.8°F | 9.6°F | 0.67 in | 31.5°F | 11.7°F | 0.70 in |
| March | 40.5°F | 22.5°F | 1.50 in | 43.5°F | 22.6°F | 1.25 in |
| April | 56.6°F | 34.9°F | 2.64 in | 57.2°F | 34.6°F | 2.99 in |
| May | 69.9°F | 47.5°F | 3.65 in | 69.1°F | 47.3°F | 3.97 in |
| June | 79.8°F | 58.1°F | 4.66 in | 80.1°F | 58.7°F | 4.23 in |
| July | 83.6°F | 61.6°F | 3.37 in | 84.8°F | 62.9°F | 3.41 in |
| August | 81.0°F | 59.0°F | 4.00 in | 82.3°F | 60.2°F | 3.73 in |
| September | 74.3°F | 50.2°F | 2.85 in | 74.9°F | 50.7°F | 3.03 in |
| October | 59.2°F | 37.3°F | 2.21 in | 60.6°F | 37.1°F | 2.27 in |
| November | 42.2°F | 23.9°F | 1.19 in | 44.2°F | 23.7°F | 0.94 in |
| December | 28.2°F | 11.7°F | 0.69 in | 30.4°F | 12.7°F | 0.79 in |
Cities that consider Morton their climate twin
These US cities have Morton in their top 3 most-similar list — meaning if you were to move from any of these places, Morton would feel familiar.
- Nunda, SD (ranks Morton #1)
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 →