Climate twins of Nevis, MN

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

Top match: Mayville, ND

Month Nevis Mayville
High Low Precip High Low Precip
January 18.1°F -2.8°F 0.43 in 16.1°F -3.7°F 0.54 in
February 23.8°F 0.8°F 0.40 in 21.0°F -0.5°F 0.53 in
March 36.9°F 15.6°F 1.00 in 33.4°F 13.0°F 0.96 in
April 52.6°F 29.3°F 1.72 in 51.3°F 28.0°F 1.50 in
May 66.5°F 41.9°F 3.09 in 66.6°F 40.6°F 3.29 in
June 75.7°F 52.8°F 4.08 in 76.2°F 53.2°F 4.11 in
July 80.2°F 57.1°F 3.93 in 80.1°F 56.6°F 3.88 in
August 78.6°F 54.8°F 2.78 in 79.2°F 53.9°F 2.66 in
September 69.2°F 46.3°F 2.70 in 70.1°F 44.2°F 2.68 in
October 53.6°F 33.5°F 2.40 in 54.4°F 31.7°F 2.11 in
November 36.4°F 19.3°F 0.81 in 36.3°F 17.3°F 0.79 in
December 23.1°F 5.4°F 0.52 in 22.3°F 4.5°F 0.85 in

Cities that consider Nevis their climate twin

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