Climate twins of Mott, ND

These are the US cities whose 12-month climate pattern most closely matches Mott'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.

Rank 1 closest
Carpio, ND
similarity distance: 0.936 (lower = more similar)
Rank 2 closest
Long Lake, SD
similarity distance: 0.960 (lower = more similar)
Rank 3 closest
Ismay, MT
similarity distance: 0.976 (lower = more similar)

Side-by-side: Mott vs its climate twin

Top match: Carpio, ND

Month Mott Carpio
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 26.8°F 3.6°F 0.45 in 20.7°F 2.4°F 0.49 in
February 30.6°F 6.8°F 0.78 in 25.1°F 5.4°F 0.52 in
March 42.5°F 17.0°F 0.74 in 37.8°F 17.7°F 0.69 in
April 56.0°F 27.6°F 1.53 in 54.1°F 30.1°F 1.15 in
May 66.8°F 39.9°F 2.47 in 67.8°F 42.6°F 2.46 in
June 76.9°F 50.4°F 2.68 in 76.9°F 53.4°F 3.45 in
July 84.8°F 55.4°F 2.78 in 83.6°F 57.4°F 2.76 in
August 84.7°F 52.8°F 1.64 in 83.8°F 56.1°F 1.79 in
September 74.9°F 43.0°F 1.65 in 72.6°F 46.1°F 1.67 in
October 57.9°F 30.6°F 1.41 in 55.1°F 33.7°F 1.27 in
November 42.0°F 18.0°F 0.46 in 38.2°F 19.6°F 0.74 in
December 30.5°F 7.7°F 0.61 in 24.8°F 7.8°F 0.65 in

Cities that consider Mott their climate twin

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